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.。1901年,南美洲最南端的智利火地岛,西班牙富商坐拥广袤土地,立起围栏放牧羊群。然而长居在此的原住民,并不了解资本主义的私人财产观念,擅自猎羊引起富商震怒。富商雇用了凶残的英国前军官与美国佣兵,以及一名印地安与白种混血的当地人为向导,「清理」出一条通往海边的安全路线。当殖民的铁蹄哒哒响起,历史的粉饰亦纷纷重演,原来在这条国家的诞生路上,铺满着尸骸与谎言。。二战期间,一位美国军官克尔索被德军抓到,克尔索知道详细的诺曼底登陆计划,如果特工队不能拯救克尔索,他们就必须在纳粹发现珍贵的秘密前杀掉他。特工队员哈里和纳粹德国斗智斗勇的激烈战争开始了……。