Čtyři múzy – Haydocková Sophie (2022)

Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century is full of art, music, and radical ideas. Egon Schiele paints his models in a bold, innovative way. But who are the women looking down from his paintings? Adele has been feeling an urge for some time that she cannot describe. An insistent flutter in her stomach, an all-pervasive restlessness... Don't we all feel it? That urgent need to act, to bring about change? Don't we pray for something to happen? Something that will fundamentally change their lives? "Gertrude, I promise you... I promise that one day, when we are older, we will move to Vienna and live in a beautiful apartment. Just the two of us." The more Gertrude thinks about those words, the more weight she gives them. She desires nothing else. It is a promise she will not let slip away. Posing for Egon puts Wally into a hypnotic trance. She feels eyes, ghostly eyes, examining her body. And the intensity of those gazes, radiating the conviction that they own her, that they can possess her, compels her to look even more piercingly into Egon's eyes. He returns her gaze with one full of understanding and equality, while his brush captures not only everything in front of him but also the space between them. Edith's heart is gripped by an invisible hand. She sees herself in bloom, casting aside old notions of...