Genre: biopic

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EGON SCHIELE: DEATH AND THE MAIDEN

There really is a lot to be enjoyed in dealing with all the numerous ideas that the life of this brilliant artist has to offer us. All depends on knowing how to handle them well, in order to make a never predictable or didactic work that is able to portray one of Austria’s most important artistic personalities as passionately and faithfully as possible. And Dieter Berner has perfectly succeeded in this never easy and by no means banal task with his Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden.

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ANGELO

In Angelo, through the story of an individual, the director staged the complicated – and sadly topical – theme of diversity, taking the opportunity to develop a lucid and merciless analysis of society and – more generally – of humanity, regardless of the century in which we live.