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.。原作は集英社「少年ジャンプ+」で連載中、同アプリ内での累計閲覧数2億超えの『忘却バッテリー』(著・みかわ絵子)。 2018年4月より連載が開始され、記憶喪失の主人公というユニークな設定、魅力的なキャラクターたち、高校野球のリアルな部分を描いた描写、ギャグとシリアス要素の絶妙なバランス、などが人気を博している。 中学球界で名を馳せた完全無欠の剛腕投手・清峰葉流火、切れ者捕手の“智将”・要圭の怪物バッテリー。全国の強豪校からスカウトを受けていた彼らが進学したのは何故か野球無名校の東京都立小手指高校だった。さらに圭は記憶喪失で野球に関する知識も失っていた。 そしてかつて彼らに敗れ散り野球から遠ざかっていた天才たちも、偶然同じ高校に入学しており…。 巡り合い、再び動き出す彼らの高校野球ストーリーがいま始まる―!。