Carrington
- R
- Year:
- 1995
- 121 min
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ONE:
LYTTON & CARRINGTON 1915(train whistle)
- Hello.
- Sir.
Taxi or a fly, sir?
I don't think we ought to make
too hasty a decision. Do you?
I believe I'll take...
that one.
Vanessa.
- I'm dropping.
- The kettle's on.
- Ah!
- Clive.
We're fending for ourselves.
The servants are off till Monday.
- Oh, dear.
- We've put you in the front bedroom.
- There's a fire in the sitting room.
- Jolly good.
- I'll get you a cup of tea.
- Oh, please.
Oh!
- I've brought you my ration cards.
- Thanks.
Vanessa.
Yes?
Who on earth is that ravishing boy?
I take it you're not referring
to either of my sons.
No.
Him.
Carrington!
Good God.
- Someone I want you to meet.
- Coming.
This is Lytton Strachey.
Hello.
I'll fetch the tea.
- So, you're Carrington.
- Yes.
Mark Gertler's friend.
Well, I know him.
Ah.
(door closes)
(Lytton) They'll be bringing in
conscription in a matter of weeks.
We'll all be dragged in front
of some appalling tribunal.
You'll have to be conscientious objectors.
I'd rather go to prison, or down the mines.
It'd be warmer. You'd meet
a much nicer class of person, I'm sure.
(Clive) Ottoline says she'll be able to help.
(Lytton) There must be compensation
for having friends in high places.
(Carrington) Don't you like Ottoline?
I'm devoted to Ottoline.
She's like the Eiffel Tower: she's very
silly, but she affords excellent views.
Will knitting scarves for the troops
be classified as essential war work?
I'm so busy nowadays.
I've been learning German as well.
- It's a most disagreeable language.
- (Carrington) Then why learn it?
Well, my dear, I mean,
suppose they win.
- (champagne cork pops)
- Oh!
Ye gods.
Can you imagine what
the war must be like?
(Lytton) As Nessa and Clive are both
having affairs with cousins of mine,
I can't help thinking theirs is
a peculiarly civilised marriage.
Do you really like to be called Carrington?
- Yes.
- Why?
My first name is Dora.
Ah. I see.
(faint rumble)
- Can you hear them?
- What?
The guns.
Oh, yes.
I have three brothers over there.
I can't tell you how angry
it makes me feel.
I'd have joined up if I'd been a man.
- You don't believe...?
- No, I don't believe in it.
I wish I'd been born a boy.
You have such lovely ears.
Don't! Stop it!
Would you mind not?!
Sorry.
Have you brought my breakfast?
No, I haven't.
I was going to cut your beard off.
- Why?
- To punish you.
Oh, I see.
Do you still want to punish me?
No. No.
I don't.
TWO:
GERTLER 1916-1918That's enough. That's enough.
- Why?
- I'll have to go soon anyway.
Why don't you stay the night?
- Let's not go through all this again.
- I'm only asking.
It makes me think
you're only interested in me sexually.
Oh, God! You make me so angry!
Of course I'm interested in you sexually!
It doesn't mean I'm only interested
in you sexually. I can get it anywhere.
I'm interested in you, in your opinions.
What you think of me.
So naturally I'm interested in you sexually
too. I did ask you to marry me.
- I know, Mark, but...
- I'd understand if you thought I was ugly.
- You'd not like me, and you say you do.
- Of course I do.
Well, then.
It's you I like, not your body.
Except I am my body.
Good night.
You can't expect
to stay a virgin all your life.
What's the matter?
I was just thinking... about
that disgusting old man with the beard.
Well, I really shouldn't
brood about it, if I were you.
After all, he is a bugger.
- What?
- Lytton.
He's a bugger.
- I never know what that means.
- He's a homosexual.
(usher) Call Mr Strachey.
Giles Lytton Strachey.
- Mr Strachey?
- No. Phillip Morrell.
- MP for Burnley.
- Ah. I, erm...
I believe Mr Strachey
is marshalling his documents.
Mr Strachey.
One moment.
I'm a martyr to the piles.
You're a writer by profession.
Is that correct?
It is. I am.
Now, according to this report
from the advisory committee,
you've made a statement to the effect
that you have a conscientious objection
to taking part in the war.
- Did you make such a statement?
- Yes. Yes.
- Mr Strachey.
- Yes?
Are we to understand that you have
a conscientious objection to all wars?
Oh, no, no. Not at all. Only this one.
Then would you care to tell us
what you would do
if you saw a German soldier
raping your sister?
to come between them.
(titters)
I will not assist, by any deliberate
action of mine, in carrying on this war.
My objection is based not upon religious
belief, but upon moral considerations.
And I'll not act against those convictions
whatever the consequences may be.
Well, after all that, the prospect
of jail seems positively soothing.
They'll never send you to jail. Too many
of them went to school with you.
I only hope you're right.
Any luck with the famous
Carrington conundrum?
It's only ignorance. Fear and ignorance.
It has been going on for four years.
I'm at my wits' end.
Well, it's no use asking my opinion.
When it comes to a creature with a c*nt,
I'm always infinitely desoriente.
All the same I've decided,
if anyone can help me, you can.
I? How?
Well, I don't know exactly.
I just mean if you'd just...
be with her a little.
A man like you - she has no older friends,
you see - she's bound to learn.
Keats's letters, of course, are
very poignant on the subject of virginity.
- And my work.
- What?
Take this, for example.
This is a radical painting.
This is my statement on
the soulless mechanisms of war.
She won't understand that.
Harmonies, for example.
I mean, they're like Bach.
- Don't you agree?
- But the critics.
Surely the papers are full of
nothing but Gertler nowadays.
That's no good to her.
Someone must explain to her -
someone that she respects -
that I'm an important artist.
- You think, if she realises that, she'll...?
- I'm sure of it.
To begin with, I'm still compelled,
at my age, to live in my mother's house,
simply because
I'm more or less sans le sou.
as a man of letters. Hm?
All I've ever managed to publish is a few
reviews and a slim volume of criticism.
Can't write half the things I want to write.
If I did, I wouldn't dare publish them
for fear of killing my mother.
Furthermore, I now find myself, despite
my great age and notorious health,
being harassed by the government
to take part
in some entirely ridiculous war
they seem quite unable to grasp
of people dying.
So I'm now reduced to writing pamphlets
for the No-Conscription Fellowship,
which may very possibly
land me in prison.
In other words:
I'm obscure, decrepit,terrified, penniless, and fond of adjectives.
Surely it's not that bad.
No. No, you're quite right.
Looked at another way, I'm a respectable
elderly bugger of modest means.
I suppose you ought to be going soon,
before it gets dark.
Oh, no. No, no, no.
No, I adore the blackout.
The most thrilling encounters...
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