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Reconstruction (2003)

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Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 3

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Average Rating: 4.1/5
User Ratings: 4,895

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Danish filmmaker Christoffer Boe makes his feature debut with the psychological romantic drama Reconstruction. Set in Copenhagen during a 24-hour period, narrator August (Krister Henriksson) works on his novel while his wife, Aimee (Maria Bonnevie), has a one-night stand with photographer Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kaas). The next morning, Alex appears to have lost touch with his surroundings as his friends, family, and girlfriend Simone (also played by Bonnevie) treat him like a stranger. Reconstruction

Apr 12, 2005

Palm Pictures

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All Critics (42) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (29) | Rotten (10) | DVD (7)

Boe's notion of cinema as a glamorous art is apparent, but his sense of narrative mystery tends to err on the side of pretentiousness.

December 10, 2004 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
Boston Globe
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Boe can be forgiven for occasionally bringing Reconstruction ... to the brink of pretension. It's his first full- length feature, and this is the mark of a novice. He makes up for it with a natural's gift for storytelling and eye for casting.

November 12, 2004 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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This is Boe's first full-length film, but he already works the art form like a master. He proves he understands love lost and the hungry yearning burning inside love found.

October 28, 2004 Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Comment
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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It manages to engage you on the literal -- the immediate story, that is -- and the abstract.

October 1, 2004 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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Reconstruction works more resonantly as a cerebral exercise than an emotional voyage.

September 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | Comment
Dallas Morning News
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Ultimately, the narrative becomes too hypothetical for its good, but it succeeds in holding one's attention with its romantic intensity and sheer old-fashioned glamour.

September 17, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Observer | Comment
New York Observer
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Even The New York Times crossword puzzle can be solved, which isn't something most viewers will be able to say about this film, which isn't as provocative as it tries to be.

April 21, 2005 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

A puzzle of a movie somewhere between David Lynch and M. Night Shyamalan

April 13, 2005 Full Review Source: Movie Habit | Comment
Movie Habit

Toys with our feelings just enough to make us aware of ourselves but sufficiently refrains from manipulation- overload.

November 30, 2004 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Film Threat

Stylish, complex and challenging, Reconstruction is a noir romance that teases the mind but leaves the emotions untouched.

October 30, 2004 Full Review Source: BBC | Comment

A film with some heft to it, even if it is a bit self-indulgent.

October 14, 2004 Comment
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Like love itself, Reconstruction works on an irrational, off-kilter plane, filled with elation, regret and elusive second chances.

October 8, 2004 Full Review Source: Seattle Times | Comment
Seattle Times

Emblematic of a new sort of filmic collage in which artificial construction is as much a featured part of the point as a means to an end.

October 5, 2004 Full Review Source: Entertainment Today | Comment
Entertainment Today

Starts out a little like a perfume commercial - the close-ups of beautiful people and the meaningful whispers, but it quickly turns into something much more intriguing.

September 26, 2004 Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Reconstruction

For a movie I knew nothing about and had no interest in seeing, this was fantastic! This was quite an unusual film, I didn't really "get" it until 10 minutes to the end, but I guess the clue was in the title all along!What seemed to be a simple story about a couple who meet and experience "love at first sight", though

November 23, 2008
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Super Reviewer

Rather decent off-kilter relationship drama. Nikolaj Lie Kaas plays a young man who thought himself to already be in a relationship unexpectedly finds himself in a literary affair. His reality is distorted soemwhat, to what degree we learn with him, as friends and even family seem to treat him as a stranger. The film

October 24, 2006
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Antony Stubbs

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