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.。该剧主要讲述了一对孪生姐妹在战火中双亲牺牲,在被人流冲散后,分别被两对家庭收养长大。她们分别在两个家庭受到良好的教育,但一边信仰共产主义,一边效忠于国民党。不同的信仰使得两姐妹长大后在没有硝烟的战争中相逢,注定展开一场生死绝杀,上演一段起伏跌宕的谍战风云。。文明时代、反智社会!幽默是无声的呐喊,苦笑是绝望的挣扎!新香港黑色曲线单元剧。由你我眼中,所闻所见的奇人奇事,构成一连串香港故事!揭露城市阴暗荒谬的另一侧,探射香港人心底里身在社会角落的贪、嗔、痴、恨、爱!每段难以置信却真实贴地的人生奇遇。追求黄金、却制造垃圾,在欲望泛滥的时代,迷失挣扎的你和我,最后得到的会是甚么?失去的又是甚么?。