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Reconstruction (2004)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:28
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.4/10
Theatrical Release:Sep 10, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: Smitten with a woman he sees on the subway platform, Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kass) impulsively leaves his girlfriend, Simone (Maria Bonnevie) in pursuit of the stranger. Alex and Aimee (also played by... Smitten with a woman he sees on the subway platform, Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kass) impulsively leaves his girlfriend, Simone (Maria Bonnevie) in pursuit of the stranger. Alex and Aimee (also played by Maria Bonnevie) first share a conversation in a bar, and then spend the night together in her hotel room. But there's a hitch: Aimee is married. This beautiful stranger has accompanied her husband, a renowned author (Krister Henriksson), on his book tour to Copenhagen. Suddenly, she is making plans to leave her noncommunicative husband and run away with her new lover. Meanwhile, following his night with Aimee, Alex finds his world turned upside down and inside out. He returns to his apartment to find that it doesn't exist, and neither Simone, nor his friends and family, know who he is. Is this a sign that he should pursue a life with Aimee? Or is the universe simply trying to teach Alex a lesson? This debut feature film from director Christoffer Boe, who also cowrote the screenplay, received the Camera d'Or and the Youth Prize at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. [More]
Starring: Nicolaj Lie Kass, Maria Bonnevie, Krister Henriksson, Nicolas Bro
Starring: Nicolaj Lie Kass, Maria Bonnevie, Krister Henriksson, Nicolas Bro, Peter Steen, Ida Dwinger, Malene Schwartz, Helle Fargalid
Director: Christoffer Boe, Ake Sandgren
Director: Christoffer Boe
Screenwriter: Christoffer Boe, Mogens Rukov
Producer: Tine Grew Pfeiffer
Director: Ake Sandgren
Producer: Lar Kjeldgaard
Composer: Thomas Knak
Studio: Palm Pictures
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Reviews for Reconstruction
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.
Stylish, complex and challenging, Reconstruction is a noir romance that teases the mind but leaves the emotions untouched.
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.
Boe makes no bones about his absolute power to control characters. He boldly brandishes a postmodern stewardship in crafting this dreamscape about the oldest game in the book: love.
The influence of Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier looms heavily over the whole film.
The presumptions behind this mental exercise in gyrating realities of romance and relationships never generates the weight of revelation that seems to be its mystical aim.
An imaginative, challenging pic evoking the French New Wave as a man must make a clear commitment to the woman he has recently met and loved.
Reconstruction works more resonantly as a cerebral exercise than an emotional voyage.
It's all confusing and made more so by Boe's overwrought narration, jerky camera movements and pointless aerial shots that turn what might have been affecting domestic drama into a soulless mind trip reminiscent of The Twilight Zone.
Maddeningly convoluted, consistently challenging and fascinating to contemplate.
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.
The film's mood of fractured anxiety and longing made me eager to see what the director, Christoffer Boe, does next.
Though the fact that it is not a linear and fully comprehensible story might throw some viewers off, I would recommend it to anyone with an open mind.
Offers not much more than a snazzy-looking but ultimately empty experiment.
Toys with our feelings just enough to make us aware of ourselves but sufficiently refrains from manipulation- overload.
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