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Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1981) Egon Schiele - Exzess und Bestrafung [Re-UP]

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Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1981) Egon Schiele - Exzess und Bestrafung [Re-UP]

Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1981)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 | 01:29:15 | 3,17 Gb
Audio: #1 French, #2 German - each AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, German
Genre: Art-house, Drama

Director: Herbert Vesely
Writers: Leo Tichat, Herbert Vesely
Stars: Mathieu Carrière, Jane Birkin, Christine Kaufmann

The strange life of Austrian painter Egon Schiele, one of the fathers of expressionism, is chronicled in this dramatic biography. He began his career during his stint as a soldier in WWI. He gained notoriety for his pornographic nudes and was eventually arrested for creating them. At the same time, his first love dies, and his next lover dumps him. His paintings finally become popular at the war's end. Unfortunately, he dies of a strange disease before he can enjoy his success.



Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1981) Egon Schiele - Exzess und Bestrafung [Re-UP]

The early 20th-century Austrian painter portrayed in Herbert Vesely's film "Egon Schiele: Epcess and Punishment" has just the sort of credentials that, crudely exploited, could inspire a fervent cult. Handsome, talented and prosecuted for his anatomically explicit female nudes, Schiele died of influenza at the age of 28. How many legends have been spun from the images of golden artistic rebels who died before reaching their prime?

Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1981) Egon Schiele - Exzess und Bestrafung [Re-UP]

But "Excess and Punishment," which opens today at the Film Forum, makes no attempt to lionize Schiele as the Jim Morrison of Austrian Expressionists. At once dour and prurient, the movie, filmed in a sepia-toned color that lends everything a sour, varnished hue, tries to imagine the world as seen through Schiele's eyes. It is a place in which the only antidote to the drabness of straitlaced Austrian life is the lushness and mystery of the undraped female body.

Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1981) Egon Schiele - Exzess und Bestrafung [Re-UP]

The camera repeatedly pans across the naked forms of Schiele's models like a painter contemplating his subject with a mixture of clinical curiosity and desire. The models' intense expressions and unguarded poses indicate that their sitting for the artist is a defiant romantic gesture, an intimate sexual transaction that is as risky as it is exciting.

Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1981) Egon Schiele - Exzess und Bestrafung [Re-UP]

As evocatively as the movie explores the relationship between artist and model in a sexually repressed era, it is frustratingly sketchy and confusing when it comes to actual biographical detail, and it has no narrative energy. As the film begins, Schiele (Mathieu Carriere) and his favorite model, Vally (Jane Birkin), are living in the country when a beautiful 15-year-old runaway (Nina Fallenstein) knocks at their door and pleads for shelter.

Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1981) Egon Schiele - Exzess und Bestrafung [Re-UP]

After the girl's outraged father comes to call, Schiele is imprisoned without trial for 24 days for seducing a minor. Although he is finally acquitted of the charge, he is sentenced to three days in prison for making obscene art, and is devastated when one of his drawings is publicly burned. Schiele eventually marries, but he and his wife both die in the influenza epidemic of 1918. In the film, he contracts the disease by making love to his wife on her deathbed.

Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1981) Egon Schiele - Exzess und Bestrafung [Re-UP]

As played by Mr. Carriere, Schiele is a far cry from a heroic rebel. A neurasthenic introvert with the eyes of a frightened deer, he nearly loses his mind during his imprisonment. A mute, helpless figure, he seems to exist only for his work, and his relationships with the two major women in his life seem tormented in ways that are never made clear. His few comments are remarks about painting, the relationship of the human body to napure and an esthetic that he describes as "nostalgia."

"Egon Schiele" is skillful at evoking an oppressive social ethos, but as a character study it remains largely a blank.

Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1981) Egon Schiele - Exzess und Bestrafung [Re-UP]

…I approached this movie as a fan of the exploitation genre. Given the date of production and the extensive nudity including close-up between the legs shots this movie definitely fits. Given this, the background of a good plot with an important historical context, and we have a very nice exploitation film. Nina Finkelstein is reported to be 16, played a 15 year old, at the time of filming, and while this is common in Europe it is still unusual today to see such extensive underage nudity in a film in the USA. It makes one think how in the US we have not come very far in our acceptance of art of this nature in the past 80+ years from the time of this story. Overall I give it an 8, and I would give it more if it was faster paced or Jane Birkin was more than a 32A.
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Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1981) Egon Schiele - Exzess und Bestrafung [Re-UP]
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