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.。北影彩色11本京剧河中叛将孙飞虎,知崔莺莺貌美,兵围普救寺,欲掠之。崔夫人于危急中誓言:“有人能退去贼兵,愿倒赔妆奁,将莺莺之为妻。”张珙有挚友白马将军杜确,统兵镇守蒲关,乃修书一封,命寺僧惠明下书往邀杜确前来解围。杜确剿灭孙飞虎之后,张珙本思与崔莺莺结成夫妇,岂知崔夫人嫌其为白衣秀士,悔却前言,借词推托。张珙与崔莺莺两心怏怏,红娘乃往来传书递柬,先使二人在花园相会,继之更促成二人婚事,共度佳期。事为崔夫人闻知,怒笞红娘。红娘据理申辩,并责崔夫人出尔反尔之过,终使崔夫人张口结舌,无言以对,依红娘之见,准张珙与崔莺莺结亲,但须张珙赴试高中之后,始允成礼。张珙遂离河中,取路入都。至此,张珙与崔莺莺之事,告一段落。。