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.。15岁的米娅(凯蒂·贾维斯 Katie Jarvis 饰)性格叛逆而古怪,惹事生非的她不仅被学校开除而且连她最好的朋友都离她而去。米娅热爱跳舞,然而身边却似乎并没有多少人在意她那充满热情的舞步,直到一个叫康纳(迈克尔·法斯宾德 Michael Fassbender 饰)的男人出现。康纳是母亲的男朋友,在他与母亲同居的日子里,米娅被这个英俊而又友善的男人所吸引。在康纳的支持和鼓励下,米娅得到了一次舞蹈面试的机会,而且与康纳的关系也更进了一步。然而,现实世界并非想像的那样的美好……
本片由在2006年凭借《红色之路》获得戛纳电影节评委会奖的英国新锐女导演安德里亚·阿诺德(Andrea Arnold)执导,是她的第二部电影长片。作为2009年戛纳电影节竞赛影片,《鱼缸》在2009年英国独立电影节获得8项提名。。