Allegro Reviews

Part romance, part animation, part sci-fi thriller - Boe uses any and every tool he can get his hands on to tell this tale of emotional isolation and resolution.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Boe continues to remap Copenhagen with this arthouse sci-fi trip into the outer regions of love, identity and oblivion.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Although the film, much like its protagonist and his piano playing, lacks a certain passion, its stylistic structure and execution are coolly flawless.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/6

Spare, elegant and tailor-made for intense discussions over dark coffee, Boe's film is a slily bold and delightfully inventive variation on an age-old theme.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Sadly confused, but some beautiful touches give this a magical feel.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Inventive, entertaining and pleasingly bold.

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It's a technically accomplished film, but one that lacks the sort of memorably poignant performances that Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet brought to Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

[Director Christoffer] Boe offers us a vision of love as a beautiful thing that leaves destruction and pain in its wake.

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Though less ambiguous in its message than Reconstruction, Boe succeeds again in telling a captivating story about the emotions that connect us all.

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Ignoring any traditional storytelling boundaries, Allegro is an existential masterpiece from Denmark about the flaws of perfection and the consequences of allowing your memories to slip away into the unknown.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

[Director] Boe's technique has more flash than passion.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

In Allegro, the past is a shadowy night town whose geography is continually rearranging itself.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Like its gifted, but emotionally frigid, pianist hero, Allegro is filled with technical virtuosity but short on real feeling.

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Writer-director Christoffer Boe takes himself very, very seriously. Me, not so much.

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A slight, pretentious Danish sci-fi romance, notable mainly for the former supermodel Helena Christensen's acting debut.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Had Tarkovsky ever felt the urge to shoot a perfume commercial, it would probably look a lot like Allegro, this super-stylish, pungently pretentious sci-fi romance from Danish director Christoffer Boe.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5