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.。在京都艺妓神渡琴音喝醉酒睡着之时,同伴艺妓惨遭杀害,成了替罪羊的琴音因杀人罪而被迫入狱。在那里等待着她的是一群极难相处的女囚。琴音遭到她们的欺凌,有时甚至威胁到生命。但天生腹黑且不好惹的琴音总能突破重重困难。而且琴音其实是被冤枉的……她为何会背负上莫须有的罪名而被迫入狱————谜团也渐渐浮出了水面。 (奶茶@追新番原创翻译)。