简介
影片讲述了一对处在敌对关系之中的父子的故事。父子二人都在耶路撒冷的希伯来大学工作，他们都是犹太法典的专家，而且都是颇有个性和怪癖的怪人。由于在对待荣誉和学术问题上，父子二人分歧过大，所以这两个学者之间产生了早已超越父子关系的抵牾。儿子是一个喜欢追名逐利的当代学者，而他的父亲却是一个非常严肃、非常守旧的古典派的学者。在父亲威严的外表下，他其实也是一个渴望得到认知和认同的人。父子俩的矛盾一直没有公开化和扩大化。但是，当以色列国家奖要颁发的时候——这是以色列国内奖励学者的最高奖项——父子俩的矛盾终于爆发了出来，这是一出令人苦恼而且没有结果的对抗。。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.。