In 1912, in Austria, the painter Egon Schiele is sent to jail accused of pornography with the nymphet Tatjana in his erotic paints. His mate, the model Vally, gets help from a famous lawyer to release him. Then he leaves Vally, marries with another woman and goes to the war.
Mathieu Carrire Jane Birkin Karina Fallenstein Christine Kaufmann Kristina van Eyck Ramona Lei Angelika Hauff Herbert Fux Harry Hardt Serge Gainsbourg Marcel Ophls Guido Wieland Robert Dietl Dany Mann Helmut Dohle Manfred Titz Fritz Goblirsch Wolfgang Lesowsky Karl-Heinz Wukow Reno Eckstein Martina Schmatelka Maria Ebner Gertrud Roll Erik Frey Fred Rssner Michael Blenheim
Egon Schiele - Exzess und Bestrafung, Egon Schiele, enfer et passion, Inferno e passione, Egon Schiele: Exceso y castigo, Egon Schiele - Enfer et Passion, 埃贡席勒过度, Εγκον Σίλε: Εγώ Λάτρεψα το Γυμνό, Эгон Шиле - Скандал
egon schiele's life was tragically short but always full of passion and he created art in the same intensity he lived his life; he had an incredibly prolific artistic "career", leaving behind thousands of works on paper and around three hundred oil paintings at just the age of 28.
Is the pornography of one era the art of another?
More interestingly, are the transgressions of one era the values of another?
How about vice-versa...
Do the values of one era become the transgressions of another?
Are we in an era like that right now?
What former values are now transgressive?
A film that never trusts its better instincts. There are moments of pure aestheticist flights of fancy here, a woman's face rhythmically swallowed up by shadows and released again into the light, Malick style farmland glossiness, a naked female form pitted against painted glass. Vesely is also more interested in the women around Schiele than in Schiele himself, and this could've saved the film, especially when it comes to Birkin's Wally, a fascinating, obstinate presence. The film should've ended with her demise (and the outbreak of the war). Of course it isn't allowed to, because then all of that stupid genius artist vs the philistines crap the majority of the scenes consist of would've been wasted.
Egon Schiele was one of the earliest expressionist painters, who seems to have had a few turbulent phases in his life, before he died just 28 years old. His paintings are despicably ugly and it's not my interest for him as an artist that made me watch Egon Scheile: Excess and Punishment, rather the fact that the movie was one of roughly 100 I acquired as a near complete Redemption VHS collection.
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