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.。冬日的傍晚,滑冰场发现一具无头女尸,经查此人是餐厅服务员刘丽珠,刑警单立人(葛优 饰)着手调查此案。刘的丈天对妻子的遇害反应冷漠,虽不合常理,但最终排除了作案可能。死者身上的一个电话号码让一个叫李建平(尤勇 饰)的人纳入警方视线,单立人传讯了李建平,调查得知该人一惯招摇撞骗、玩弄女性感情。从他的房间里搜出B型血衣,正好和死者血型相吻合,但李矢口否认杀死了刘丽珠。次年春天,冰雪消融,有一捕鱼人从河里捞起了刘丽珠的头颅,面对铁证,百般抵赖的李建平心理防线彻底崩溃,他如实交代了强奸未遂杀人灭口的作案过程......。