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.。药剂师仁丘(韩石圭 饰)有一份优厚的职业,是个名副其实的好男人。但因为有个精神迟钝的哥哥的原因,他的婚姻大事也被延后了。这时候设计师慧兰(金智秀 饰)搬到了仁丘的村子里住。美丽高贵的慧兰无心恋爱,却因为父亲欠下的债务,与债务人打交道的时候表现泼辣。 仁丘得知了前女友结婚的消息情绪低落,在药店里喝酒,与前来买安眠药的慧兰聊起天来。两个同是身处苦境的人一同喝着啤酒,渐渐对对方产生了好感。 他们的生活甜蜜,越来越热爱对方。但这时候仁丘的母亲的病逝了,照顾哥哥的责任落到了仁丘的身上,刚刚堕胎了的妹妹也说要回到哥哥仁丘身边。现实的残酷,又会否阻挡爱情的前进呢?。