简介

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.。正在哥伦比亚大学攻读博士的萨拉·奥本多年以来一直都是亲戚长辈口中“别人家的孩子”,尽管她的加纳移民血统让她在满是白人的校园中显得有些另类,但优秀的成绩总能让她在学业上无往不利。她做了一个叛逆的决定——放弃自己的分子神经肿瘤学学位,和男友一起前往俄亥俄州开始新生活。然而,萨拉母亲的猝然去世打乱了她的一切规划,她突然得到了家里的住宅和书店作为遗产,还必须按照加纳的传统来操办母亲的葬礼。天降的责任和不确定性让她措手不及,接下来的日子里,她应该何去何从?。

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