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.。电视剧《侦探小说》打造国内首部侦探悬疑推理题材,以一部匿名投稿的连载惊悚小说,预言成为真实的连环谋杀案为主要线索,展现上世纪四十年代上海滩一个旷世奇案。患有神经和心理疾病的“变态探长”不可思议地成为杀人疑犯,艰辛逃亡并追查凶案,牵扯出一个个匪夷所思、不为人知的惊天秘密,涌现出无数神秘诡异、来路不明的各方人物,杀手之谜、身份之谜、巨大宝藏之谜,更有一段尘封三十年的灭门血案浮出水面。迷雾重重、悬念不断、错综复杂、扣人心弦,上演了一段精彩纷呈、引人入胜的大型侦探故事。。