格斯·范·桑特和杰昆·菲尼克斯时隔11年再度合作,欲将四肢瘫痪的漫画家约翰·卡拉汉(Joe Callahan)的故事搬上大银幕。卡拉汉12岁就嗜酒成性并滥用药物,21岁的在酒后遭遇车祸四肢瘫痪,之后他开始重建他的生活,最终成为了一位不断超越身体局限的漫画家。。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.。正要赶往伦敦完婚的凯莉(Margaret Lockwood)因雪崩被困在山下的小旅馆里,偶遇摄影记者康德(Michael Redgrave),两个人因小事发生争执,第二天大家各自赶路,却登上了同一列火车。
在车上凯莉与一名老妇人佛洛伊(Dame May Whitty)结伴,彼此照料。然而凯莉因头部被撞,恍惚中沉沉睡去,待她醒来,老妇人不见了。四处寻找佛洛伊,却不见她的踪影,凯莉只好报警。出乎意料的是同车厢的每个人都说没见过什么老妇人,陷入困惑的凯莉再次遇到康德。康德相信凯莉,也感到事有蹊跷,两人渐渐和好,一起展开了调查。。