视频简介
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.。1928年的美国旧金山，34岁的哈麦特（弗雷德里克·福瑞斯特 Frederic Forrest 饰）仍然是一位卑微而不幸的低级杂志雇员，同时也深受一战时期在军队中患上的肺病的折磨。虽然年轻时曾在平克顿私人侦探公司工作过一段时间，如今他以写侦破小说为生。有一天晚上，就在他写作最后一页侦破小说时，小说中的主人公赖恩突然出现在他面前，寻求帮助找一个名叫克里斯泰的16岁的中国姑娘。在寻找过程中，哈麦特不慎丢失了随身携带的小说稿，与赖恩失去了联系。然而回到公寓后，哈麦特却发现林就在那里，她自述称被黑社会头目方伟堂卖给了一个名叫卡拉汉的人，而卡拉汉的妻子则因嫉妒而杀死了丈夫。 在方伟堂经营的赌场里，哈麦特用金钱赎回了丢失的小说稿。他还在警察局看到了一具据说是林的尸体，但尸体已被毁容。与此同时，他观看了一部关于林和六个男人的影片。原来，摄影师索尔特雇了赖恩去寻找林...。