:44:04
Since the rains came,
I've become absorbed in the weavers.
:44:08
They make such good subjects.
:44:10
The old oak wood
darkened by sweating hands...
:44:14
and the shadows of the looms
on the gray mud walls.
:44:21
All these months
I've been trying to find a pattern...
:44:24
trying not so much to draw hands,
as gestures...
:44:28
not so much faces,
as the expressions of people.
:44:31
Men and women
who know the meaning of toil.
:44:37
I want to make clear that these people...
:44:39
sitting around a meal of potatoes
in the evening...
:44:42
have turned the soil
with the very hands they put in the dish.
:44:46
That they have honestly earned their food.
:44:49
I want to paint something
that smells of bacon smoke and steam.
:44:53
Something that's the good, dark color
of our Dutch earth.
:44:59
Willemien. Come in.
:45:04
Here, sit down.
:45:10
What's the matter?
:45:13
- The neighbors been at you again?
- You know how they are.
:45:15
Such a small place.
:45:18
What is it this time?
:45:21
It has to do with
the way you dress, partly, and...
:45:27
I dress this way
because I work in the fields.
:45:32
Because I have nothing else.
:45:34
And the way you behave, too.
They don't understand it.
:45:37
It makes trouble for us.
:45:40
Since Father died, it hasn't been easy.
:45:43
People have stopped coming to the house.
They avoid us.
:45:47
It isn't very comfortable and...
:45:49
Is your young man
one of those who's stopped coming?
:45:52
Yes, he is.
But that doesn't matter so much.
:45:54
- Yes, it does.
- It's the rest of the family.
:45:56
Mother pretends she doesn't notice,
but I know it's upset her.