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Egon Schiele: Excess And Punishment

1980, Movie, NR, 93 mins

Egon Schiele: Excess And Punishment: Review

A glacial, arty biopic, pruriently appointed with plenty of explicit female nudity. Austrian painter Egon Schiele (Mathieu Carriere), one of the founders of Expressionism, suffers a series of humiliations: he's busted for obscenity, his sweetheart expires, a lover dumps him, and military service during WW I proves no day at the beach. After the war, his paintings become all the rage, but he dies in the influenza epidemic of 1918. This glum, mannered attempt to enshrine Schie... read more leave a comment