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.。电影《牡丹仙子之皇帝诏曰》讲述的是“天下第一牡丹”的故事。冬日,武则天下旨要百花开放,看护牡丹的花女瑞玉,执意守护花期,不肯让牡丹违时开放,被武则天贬往洛阳。流放途中,瑞玉无意得到武承嗣谋反证据,而被武三一路追杀。途径古县时,又遇瘟疫肆虐,民不聊生。瑞玉劝说押送官兵能稍作停留,为百姓治病。同时,狄仁杰得知证据去向,派出侍卫唐大成暗中保护瑞玉,贫瘠的古县城即将掀起一场血雨腥风……。在邻里发生的一场悲剧后,两个处于青春期的兄弟面对着变化的兄弟情,自然的神秘莫测,以及他们终有一死的现实。该片通过扭曲的青少年视角来探究美国乡村生活。。