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Reconstruction (2004)

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Reviews Counted:37

Fresh:28

Rotten:9

Average Rating:6.4/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Dramas

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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Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
11/19/04
Arizona Republic

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.

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
10/28/04
Bob Longino
Bob Longino
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Stylish, complex and challenging, Reconstruction is a noir romance that teases the mind but leaves the emotions untouched.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
10/30/04
Matthew Leyland
Matthew Leyland
BBC

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.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
12/10/04
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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12/10/04
Paul Sherman
Paul Sherman
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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
09/25/04
Boston Phoenix

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.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
07/16/04
Susan Green
Susan Green
Boxoffice Magazine

The influence of Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier looms heavily over the whole film.

Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | comment Comment
09/09/04
David Sterritt
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor

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.

Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | comment Comment
08/27/04
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

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.

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
09/01/04
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

Reconstruction works more resonantly as a cerebral exercise than an emotional voyage.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
09/23/04
Philip Wuntch
Philip Wuntch
Dallas Morning News
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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.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
09/11/04
E! Online

Maddeningly convoluted, consistently challenging and fascinating to contemplate.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
04/17/04
Scott Weinberg
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Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/01/06
Empire Magazine

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.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Today | comment Comment
10/05/04
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today

The film's mood of fractured anxiety and longing made me eager to see what the director, Christoffer Boe, does next.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
09/09/04
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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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.

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07/29/04
Boyd van Hoeij
Boyd van Hoeij
european-films.net

Offers not much more than a snazzy-looking but ultimately empty experiment.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
09/14/04
Bruce Feld
Bruce Feld
Film Journal International

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Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Film Threat

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

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
11/30/04
Stina Chyn
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