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.。故事开始于一所超级白金学院--四叶艺术学院。它是为国家顶级艺术学院输送人才而建立的,毕业生会进入圣马丁,帕森斯茉莉亚等著名大学。艺术是有钱人的游戏,四叶艺术学院里自然充满着名流财阀的子女,在这群高贵的帅哥美女中,有一天,来了一个如小白花般善良天真的草根女,而不出所料的, 这朵小白花从入校门的第一天起便遭到校园恶势力的欺凌。。