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.。故事发生在某个毗邻原始森林的小镇,一家伐木公司正在林中作业,这时白雪飘然落下,作业暂时停止,然而随即便发生了残酷血腥的事件。与此同时,警长保罗·希尔德(凯文·杜兰德 Kevin Durand 饰)和新来的搭档唐尼刚刚敷衍完几个报警事件,随后驱车来到前妻苏珊(Bianca Kajlich 饰)的家中,接走儿子亚当(Ethan Khusidman 饰)回自家居住。一夜无事,次日一早,保罗在门口发现硕大的脚印,而且脚印遍布小镇主干道,一直延伸到森林深处。巨大的脚印在小镇闹得人心惶惶,保罗起初绝不相信妖精怪物一类的传说,但是恐怖血腥的事件接二连三发生,让小镇陷入前所未有的恐慌之中。
危机渐次逼近……。