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.。顺治皇帝福临少年在摄政睿亲王多尔衮和母亲孝庄太后的一手扶持下登上皇位,整个少年时期都笼罩在多尔衮专制的阴影下,虽空有一身的抱负理想,却处处受限无法施展。
顺治在登基八年之际,被迫迎娶表妹博尔济吉特氏为皇后。大婚之前,皇后赠送的龙靴藏有银针,扎伤了顺治的脚掌。太监下狱,宫女自杀,整个紫禁城鸡犬不宁。顺治把矛头引向未来的皇后,想借势把婚事搅散。母亲孝庄太后百般抚慰,满族亲贵轮番劝说下,顺治渐渐动摇,新娘却病倒了,但最后皇帝还是完婚了。对顺治来说,不顺的日子刚刚开始,身为一国之尊,想干的事情往往干不成,不想干的事情却总是有人逼他干。挫折一个接着一个,令人透不过气来……好不容易才遇见的真爱乌云珠也成了弟妻,但这并不能阻碍相爱的两人。。