Women in Love (1969)
Vladek Sheybal: Loerke
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Quotes
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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?
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Gudrun Brangwen : Oh, you believe art should serve industry?
Loerke : Art. Art should interpret industry... As art once interpreted religion.
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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.
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Loerke : One must - not repeat. One must - find only new ways.
Gudrun Brangwen : The train is going into a tunnel.
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Loerke : You're an extraordinary woman! Why should you follow the ordinary course? Huh?