Erotic biography
Why did such a title fix the great expressionist artist? The answer is in the film. The spicy, the most provocative - the name of the hero obliges. Already in the first frames, behind the letters of the credits, a family scandal is raging, they fly into a flaming fireplace of banknotes - this is a sleeping father Shile, he will die from syphilis in m, in the year of the anniversary of the egon.
Further about this fact from the artist’s biography will be said in passing, but a high degree of narration has already been set. And burning money for the Western public is a challenge of nudity and other frivoli: the great Austrian director Michael Hankee recalled that during the showing his debut “Seventh Continent” in Cannes, the hall was outraged not so much where the respectable couple, before committing suicide, kills their child, in which they lower the bills to the toytase.
In the new Austrian film, parents Shile are episodic characters, no more than the phantom shadows of the past. Shile is almost the debutant of Noah Savedra - in M he played the episodic role of the snowboarder in the Bondian film “Spectrum” - the artist, creativity is the only genuine affection and passion: he does not break away from the pencil even during sex with Valery “Walli” Neuzil, the same lover for the end of the picture “Death and Virgin” Teys The heroine, actress Valery Pakhner received a national film award for this role.
Shile changes the original name of this work “Man and Virgo”, learning about the death of Valley - from Scarlatina, in the military hospital in Dalmatia: the girl went to the Mission of the Red Cross after a strange parting with Shile. In M, he, who never burdened himself with formal connections, almost jokingly made an offer to the bourgeoisie Edith Harms - to the great displeasure of her sister Adele, who had his plans on Shil.
On the eve of the wedding, Valley suddenly suggested concluding a “secret marriage” - by signing an agreement on a ritual annual vacation together Valley refused. To the question "Why is he like that? And in time, “Egon Shile” moves with the ease of his hero: from the mourning, in front of his eyes turning into Tlen Go, when Sister Shile Gerthi finds the artist dying from the Spaniard, next to the corpse of a pregnant wife - in the sunny, when the same Gertie poses that his brother, who was just expelled from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, is not embarrassed by his innocent natives.
Like Eve, who had not yet had time to taste the fruit from the tree of knowledge. Probably, Shile could draw flowers or butterflies with the same obsession. But he chose the female bodies - for obvious reasons: in them you can see not only flowers, a whole universe.