Herbert Vesely was one of the promises for a new German cinema already in the 50's, but after the 60's his star was already dimmed. He made a small number of films in the 70's and 80's, all non too good. This biography of Egon Schiele, one of the most important Austrian artists, is an example of the pretensions and emptiness of a Vesely-film of later date.
The life of Schiele is presented here as a puzzle| well, Vesely thinks that Schiele's life was a puzzle: the core of the story is centered around the famous 1912 pornography trial and using this as base the film shows fragments of past and future. The problem is that it never becomes a unity and that the order of scenes and sequences seems to be at random: a cut-and-paste job that could have had any other result. Indeed, after seeing it twice I am almost convinced of it that a unsatisfactory linear thought-out film was changed into the puzzle in the editing room. Egon Schiele was an enigmatic man, but not a total puzzle, and this film does not bring him any closer.
The films also fails in conveying the eroticism and meaning of the Schiele's paintings: the camera watches and glides over the models without any understanding of Schiele's intentions, we only see beautiful naked bodies. If interested in Schiele, you better buy a book with his works in stead.。影片以清光绪十八年钦加同知衔正五品知县章炳焘为主人公,生动地描绘他在内乡为官九年,用自已的聪明和才智同内乡商会会长郑弼金为代表的地方邪恶势力做斗争,保护了内乡的穷苦百姓,利用地方绅商的银两修建了融大江南北风格于一体的县署衙门,使内乡的百姓有了申冤说理的地方,为老百姓创造了一个民心稳定、太平盛世的良好生存环境,同时公正廉明的他也得到内乡百姓的尊敬和爱戴。
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