Women in Love (1969)

Vladek Sheybal: Loerke

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• Loerke : What do you do?

  Gudrun Brangwen : I'm a sculptress.

  Loerke : And what do you sculpt?

  Gudrun Brangwen : Animals, birds.

  Loerke : Knick-knacks for the rich? Lavarato. Che lavoro. Che lavoro. Huh? You're not an artist. You've never worked as the world works.

  Gudrun Brangwen : Yes, l have and l do.

  Loerke : Have you known what it was to lie in bed for three days because you had nothing to eat... in a room with three other families and a toilet in the middle... a big pan with a plank on it... and your father making love - love - to a street whore in the corner?

• Gudrun Brangwen : Oh, you believe art should serve industry?

  Loerke : Art. Art should interpret industry... As art once interpreted religion.

• Gerald Crich : You don't do sports Herr Loerke?

  Loerke : Not sports. No. Only games.

  Gerald Crich : And what sort of games might they be?

  Loerke : Only ones which I enjoy.

  Gerald Crich : Yes, but, what sort of games?

  Loerke : Secret games. Initiation games. Full of esoteric understanding and fearful, sensual secrets.

• Loerke : One must - not repeat. One must - find only new ways.

  Gudrun Brangwen : The train is going into a tunnel.

• Loerke : You're an extraordinary woman! Why should you follow the ordinary course? Huh?