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.
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09/17/04
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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... [More]
Starring: Nicolaj Lie Kass, Maria Bonnevie, Krister Henriksson, Nicolas Bro
Director: Christoffer Boe, Ake Sandgren
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Reviews for Reconstruction
Top CriticIt creditably re-creates the hesitation, creeping doubt and fear that attend life-shaping decision, especially in love.
09/17/04
Top CriticAs heart-rendingly immediate as it is intellectually sophisticated.
09/17/04
Eventually it all starts to feel like an extended European perfume ad: pretty but eye-rollingly pretentious.
09/15/04
Offers not much more than a snazzy-looking but ultimately empty experiment.
09/14/04
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.
09/11/04
Valiant attempt to innovate in the well-trod realm of Boy Meets Girl doesn't quite coalesce despite a thoughtful and distinctive visual approach.
09/10/04
Boe's surefooted manipulation of characters and themes is genuinely dazzling, and cinematographer Manuel Alberto Claro gives the film an intoxicating look.
09/10/04
Languorous art movie.
09/10/04
Top CriticUber-hip technique triumphs over substance in Reconstruction.
09/10/04
Christoffer Boe's self-assured first feature is a moody, enigmatic love story set in the cool elegance of Copenhagen's classical squares and modernist hotels.
09/09/04
Top CriticThe influence of Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier looms heavily over the whole film.
09/09/04
The film's mood of fractured anxiety and longing made me eager to see what the director, Christoffer Boe, does next.
09/09/04
Top CriticBoe is able -- barely -- to have things both ways. 'It is all film,' the narrator concludes. 'Even so, it hurts.'
09/07/04
Top CriticAn 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.
09/01/04
Reconstruction ends the way it begins, with the narrator uttering, “It is all a film. It is all a construction. It still hurts.” He’s right on all counts.
08/27/04
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.
08/27/04
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.
07/29/04
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.
07/16/04
Boe’s strange reconstruction of a love quadrangle suggests at times an episode of Unsolved Mysteries as directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
07/13/04
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