An intimate portrayal of the relationship between one of greatest artists of the 20th century, L.S. Lowry and his unhapp | dG1fM0VrRjM0bWNXRGM
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00:00I'm a man who paints. Nothing more, nothing less.
00:07Is that you, Larry?
00:08Who else would it be?
00:10It could have been a burglar.
00:12Burglars don't have their own front door key.
00:16How was your day, Mother?
00:17I just lie here, waiting for the inevitable.
00:23Today, I saw a woman. She had a beard.
00:27Is that legal?
00:28I found her rather beautiful.
00:30No wonder you've never had a girlfriend.
00:33Night after night, I sit up here.
00:36A smudge here with my finger, a stroke at a brush there.
00:40I'm safe here, alone.
00:43I'm coming!
00:46There's a beauty in everything.
00:48A man just has to open his eyes and look.
00:51Ivory black, vermilion, prussian blue.
00:55Crowds can be the loneliest of places.
00:58The painting by Mr. Ellis Lowry, coming from the mill,
01:01is confusing and appears to have been painted by a child.
01:05It is an insult to the people of Lancashire.
01:08Mr. Denby is not impressed, Lorry.
01:11He decrees it an insult!
01:15I'm going to burn them, Mother!
01:17Where has he got you, this hobby?
01:19Painting these squalid industrial scenes that nobody wants to buy!
01:24It's not a hobby, Mother.
01:28I have to do it.
01:30I'm compelled to put down everything.
01:34I need to capture a way of life.
01:37The truth.
01:39Every window, every brick, every stroke of colour, it's made up of me.
01:45Am I an artist?
01:48I'm a man who paints.
01:50Nothing more, nothing less.