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.。故事发生在我国古代,青年书法家赵旭之(王伯昭 饰)为酒家写酒幡时被齐太尉(程之 饰)长女文娟(赵静 饰)相中,当场产生倾慕之情。中秋夜,太尉以观灯为由替女择婿,赵旭之颇得太尉夫妇赏识,愿认其为婿,由于赵不知文娟才貌惋拒,后经好友徐安民(丁嘉元 饰)劝说,勉强留在府内。临婚之日,太尉发现女婿不辞而别,好生尴尬,无奈中,让女儿与他人订婚。不久,赵旭之巧遇文娟,见其才貌双绝,十分后悔。后来赵旭之求官至左将军,亲自登门求亲,正遇护国将军桓述(迟重瑞 饰)也登门求亲,齐太尉令二人当堂比赛书法,结果难分伯仲,约定一年后再比。旭之励精图治,游历遍前人名帖,志在必得......。