Klimt & Schiele – Eros and Psyche (2018)

Klimt u0026 Schiele – Eros and Psyche: Directed by Michele Mally. With Lorenzo Richelmy, Maxi Blaha, Rudolf Buchbinder, Lily Cole. 1918. As the roar of the First World War cannons is dying out, in Vienna, the heart of Central Europe, a golden age comes to an end. The Austro-Hungarian Empire is beginning to disintegrate. On the night of October 31st, in the bed of his home, Egon Schiele dies, one of the 20 million deaths caused by the Spanish flu. He dies looking at the invisible evil in the face, in the only he can do: painting it. He is 28 years old. Only a few months earlier, the main hall of the Secession building had welcomed his works: 19 oil paintings and 29 drawings. His first successful exhibition, a celebration of a new painting idea that portrays the restlessness and desires of mankind.A few months earlier, his teacher and friend Gustav Klimt had died. From the turn of the century, he had fundamentally changed the feeling of art and founded a new group: the Secession. The documentary film Klimt u0026 Schiele – Eros and Psyche, will recount this extraordinary season: a magical moment for art, literature, and music, in which new ideas are circulated, Freud discovers the drives of the psyche, and women begin to claim their independence. An age that revealed the abysses of the ego, in which today we’re still reflecting ourselves.The film will take us through 3 stunning exhibitions:- Vienna 1900. Klimt – Moser – Gerstl – Kokoschka (Leopold Museum);- Egon Schiele. The Jubilee Show (Leopold Museum);- Stairway to Klimt. Eye to Eye with Klimt u0026 Nuda Veritas (Kunsthistorischesmuseum).

“Klimt u0026amp; Schiele – Eros and Psyche (2018) is a documentary directed bynMichele Mally.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMany people know the name Gustav Klimt because he was a great painter, and because of the movie Woman in Gold (2015), starring Helen Mirren. Klimtu0026#39;s contemporary, Egon Schiele is not as well known.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe movie somehow tries to weave their art into a tapestry of their era. New names appear and disappear, and itu0026#39;s hard to understand how person A relates to person B, or C, or D.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMore exasperating is that Klimt and Schiele were painters in the Art Nouveau style. The film uses the German term, Jugendstil, but never defines it.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eArt Nouveau or Jugendstil was a major artistic movement from 1890 until WW I Klimt and Schiele were key players. I find it bizarre that this isnu0026#39;t made apparent anywhere in the movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis is a film worth seeing if youu0026#39;re interested in art, and, especially Art Nouveau. Itu0026#39;s not a terrible film, but not a great one either.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWe saw the movie at a special showing at Rochesteru0026#39;s wonderful Little Theatre. Because itu0026#39;s about art, it will work better on a large screen than on a small screen. Klimt and Schiele were great artists. I wish director Mally had made a great film about them.”