该剧讲述了一位普通绣花女不寻常的人生。古镇绣女阿慧与邻村木匠阿平青梅竹马,不料她被东家少爷赵景憧无意之间相中。赵景憧不满封建家庭的束缚,同家里闹翻后自立门户。不久,他在处处碰壁的境遇中因车祸丧生。阿慧在当地的陋俗中成了所谓的“回缸女”,自此铸成了一生的悲剧。阿平坚持要娶阿慧,被族长百般阻挠,阿慧只得改嫁他人……多年以后,白发苍苍的阿平带着阿慧的后代,就像当年的阿慧一样,在金灿灿的油菜花中放起了风筝,跟孩子们一起缅怀那位可悲而又可怜的奶奶的故事。。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.。