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.。斯特拉因30年前父亲失踪而备受困扰,她回到家乡照顾生病的母亲。一天晚上,她的父亲通过一台旧收音机联系到了她。斯特拉必须穿越时空,通过激活 Taklee Genesis 把他带回来。。雷艾(Chhabi Biswas 饰)出生于富贵之家中,世世代代都是坐拥着土地的地主阶级,雷艾自然继承了家族的财产,可是,他的心思却并不在好好经营这份财产之上。雷艾对音乐有着狂热的喜爱,常常斥巨资举办音乐会,请来大师名流进行演奏。就这样,上一代积攒下来的财富就在雷艾的一次又一次挥霍中越来越少。
马兴(Gangapada Basu 饰)是雷艾的死对头,他同样是一名音乐爱好者,两人互相攀比音乐会的排场,互相质疑彼此对于音乐的品味。为了战胜马兴,雷艾不顾拮据的经济状况大肆挥霍,甚至为了满足自己的虚荣而付出了家人的性命作为代价。最终,雷艾家破人亡,濒临疯狂的他在散尽了最后一笔钱后选择了死亡。。