好友罗布要去日本工作,他的弟弟杰森和朋友莉莉为他举办了一场欢送派对。看到杰森拎着DV只顾拍摄美女玛莲娜,莉莉很恼火,指出他更加关注罗布,因为后者才是今天的主角。
罗布姗姗来迟,并且感到没落。原来他跟好友贝丝的地下情刚刚告吹,这令他异常沮丧。正在此时,贝丝携新男友出现在派对现场,这令好友感到既尴尬又愤怒,而真正的地震危险正在悄悄逼近……
本片故事是采用伪DV风格的拍摄而成。。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.。