Summer Interlude (1951)

Maj-Britt Nilsson: Marie

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• Marie : I don't believe God exists. And if he does, I hate him. And I'll never stop hating him. If he stood before me, I'd spit in his face. I'll hate him for as long as I live. I won't forget. I'll hate him till the day I die.

• Marie : Let me mourn my youth alone.

• Marie : I'd like to cry all this week and next. Cry away all my shabbiness and all the wasted time. Funny... I can't seem to cry. If I really search inside myself I'm actually... happy!

• Marie : Everyone's alive. They run around in the streets. And here I am, eating and drinking. At the theater we dance and fool around. And Henrik lies out there, starting to rot. A moment earlier we were laughing about everything. He lay in my arms. I kissed his lips. That's how life is. Is there no meaning anywhere?

  Uncle Erland : No, my child. Nothing means anything in the long run.

• Marie : Yet there you sit in that clown costume you don't dare take off.

  Ballet Master : What about your own costume?

  Marie : It's true. It's like it's branded onto my body.

  Ballet Master : Think I don't understand, Marie? You don't dare take your makeup off, and you don't dare put it on. You don't dare leave, yet you don't dare stay.

• Marie : One night, after a scorching summer day of blazing sunlight... there was an immense silence that reached all the way up to the starless vault of heaven. The silence between us was immense as well.

• Marie : Now you have a lover. How does it feel? Exciting? I'm sure you'll tell your friends. Will you boast about us?

  Henrik : I can't give any guarantees, but we will get married.

  Marie : But now? How do you feel right now? Haven't you longed for this? I never imagined it would be like this.

  Henrik : I was quite afraid, actually.

  Marie : And you're not now?

  Henrik : No. Are you?

  Marie : No, I'm never afraid of anything.

  Henrik : I am.

• Marie : How does it feel?

  Henrik : What?

  Marie : You said you're in love with me.

  Henrik : You feel it in your chest and stomach. It's like your knees are full of applesauce, and your toes curl up. But it's mostly in the chest.

  Marie : In the heart?

  Henrik : I don't know. What about you?

  Marie : Who said I was in love with you?

  Henrik : You're right.

  Marie : [She laughs lightly, pulling his arm around her shoulder]  I think it's in my skin. I want you to touch me and stroke my skin with your hands. It's in my shoulders and elbows, and the palms of my hands. It tickles all over.

• Marie : It was the ship's horn in the distance... and other things too: the music and the moonlight... the silence and the anticipation... the blood whispering in our ears. A strange mood set in... almost like a melody. A new room opened up in our minds.