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.。儿子汤米(Ty Panitz 饰)的失踪让警长汤姆(乔·哈姆 Jon Hamm 饰)陷入了悲伤和自责之中,为了缓解失去儿子的痛苦,他只能把自己全部投入到繁忙的工作中去。一具男孩尸体的被发现让汤姆的心吊到了嗓子眼,经过调查和鉴定,男孩已经死了50年了,他并非汤米。这一结果让汤姆既高兴有悲伤,高兴的是这具尸体并不是汤米,悲伤的是汤米至今仍然生死未卜。 汤姆自愿接手了这一棘手的案件,随着调查的深入,一个名叫马修(乔什·卢卡斯 Josh Lucas 饰)的男人和马修的儿子约翰(吉米·本内特 Jimmy Bennett 饰)的身影浮出了水面,令汤姆震惊的是,他正在调查的这个案件与在自己身上发生的不幸竟然惊人的相似。。