Mrs Lowry & Son (2019)

Vanessa Redgrave: Elizabeth Lowry

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• Elizabeth Lowry : [reading from a newspaper]  "An ugly painting. The painting by Mr L.S. Lowry - Coming From The Mill - is confusing and appears to have been painted by a child. The figures if we may call them figures are nothing but smudges. Ridiculous marionettes suspended in a squalid industrial scene. If this is Mr Lowry's vision of the Lancashire landscape and its people, I feel very sorry for him. It is a most unsatisfactory picture and an insult to the people of Lancashire."

• Elizabeth Lowry : Most people in Pendlebury are bone idle, that's their trouble.

  L S Lowry : People can't help being poor. No shame in having nothing, is there?

  Elizabeth Lowry : Of course there's shame. We are middle-class, Laurie.

  L S Lowry : We lived above our means, mother. Father knew it. He tried to keep you happy.

  Elizabeth Lowry : Happy? The day we married it rained. Misfortune poured upon me ever since.

• Elizabeth Lowry : No, I'm never cheerful. I haven't felt cheerful since 1868, the year of my confirmation.

  L S Lowry : That was a long time ago, mother.

  Elizabeth Lowry : A lifetime.

  L S Lowry : We're living in 1934.

  Elizabeth Lowry : I'm aware of that.

• Elizabeth Lowry : I had great hopes for you and your father. I thought you'd both be successful men of business. Men of speculation. But he wasn't capable and neither were you. Hopeless.

• L S Lowry : You never liked any of my paintings, mother?

  Elizabeth Lowry : No. I'm not the only one, am I?