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.。本剧讲述了警视厅搜查一课的刑警城崎达彦(町田启太饰)和他的搭档笹冢晋平(小泉孝太郎饰)一起,作为检举率No.1的搭档而活跃着。但是有一天,城崎最爱的妻子惠子突然失踪了。接着惠子的前辈自由记者的遗体也被发现。城崎确信惠子被卷入了事件中,但是警察并没有进行搜查,城崎也被排除在搜查之外。对警察不可理解的应对感到愤慨的城崎辞职,为了亲自寻找惠子,组成了专门调查失踪案件的侦探社“失踪者搜寻组”。在各领域的专业人士、个性十足的成员和最得力的助手笹冢一起追查惠子等人行踪的过程中,可以说是社会巨大黑暗的“消失的真相”也逐渐明朗——。