以朗读教室为舞台,讲述主角穗波孝是大学的数学教授,因为不擅说话,所以不受学生欢迎,妻子奈绪(MIMURA)也带着孩子出走。某天部长命令他去「说话教室」,在那里和讲师江崎京子(麻生久美子)相遇。在孝说要跟这看起来很了不起的女人学习之时,对方直说他是「无聊的男人」。虽然京子的上司佐久良(柴田恭兵)介入调停,但二人还是不欢而散,然而数天后教室再开,却是在离开城市的一家小小朗读教室。。萨拉和她的家庭都为自己是耶和华见证人教派的信徒而自豪。而情窦初开的少女萨拉却爱上了一个叫泰伊斯的无神论男孩。 她面对着艰难的抉择,开始在良心、信仰和爱情间挣扎徘徊, 必须在这两个截然不同的世界中做出选择。。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.。