Reconstruction

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dave s Christoffer Boe's Reconstruction is like that abstract piece of art that you see hanging in the gallery – seemingly meaningless splotches of paint, lines that wander off to nowhere, the certainty that it's been hung upside down – that you enjoy and appreciate but simply can't articulate why. Alex and Aimee meet in a bar. Both are in relationships. Both sense a mutual attraction. Both may be a figment of a writer's imagination. Or they may be real. Who knows? Why is the door to his apartment suddenly only a few feet high? Why does nobody recognize Alex later in the film? There may be perfectly good explanations, but they're beyond my mental faculties. Regardless, it is at times a beautiful film to look at and the characters are, without exception, interesting. Just don't ask me to explain the meaningless splotches of paint or the lines that wander off to nowhere. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kaas), a Danish photographer has a relationship with a Stockholm-bred girlfriend, Simone (Maria Bonnevie). Late one evening Alex suddenly abandons his girlfriend, Simone, to pursue the beautiful Aimee (Maria Bonnevie) whom he meets at a subway station. In his encounter with Aimee time and place dissolve for him and he becomes a stranger to Simone, to whom he cannot return. "It's all a film. It's all a construction," announces the narrator, who is soon revealed to be a noted Swedish author, August (Krister Henriksson), as well as the tale's apparent inventor. Alex forgets about his past and must put his faith in love, in order to gain a future... "Reconstruction" is the psychological romantic drama film and the debut of Christoffer Boe, who also wrote the screenplay. It was filmed in Copenhagen and won the Camera D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003 Golden Plaque for Manuel Alberto Claro's luminous wide-screen cinematography. The focus of "Reconstruction" is the constructed and artificial play around love. And I reckon the pillar is the fact that time and place can be forgotten when in love and Boe has taken that literally in his debut film. The characters are needy of love and understands the importance of it during the development of the story. The screenplay raises many questions, there´s a lack of explanation and the story is open to interpretation. Boe has approached the movie via the "Dogme 95" manifest and that works. The cinematography is up close and personal, forcing the actors to really use their faces in the scenes. I do like that. I like both Maria Bonnevie and Nikolaj Lie Kaas, but Krister Henriksson feels a little off centre. There´s a great atmosphere of melancholy and metaphysical anxiety that lingers around the scenes and its environments, but "Reconstruction" never really manages to convince you fully on. It confuses you more than it intrigues you. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Beautifully filmed, but pretty weird story. It seems that the protagonists in the film are actually the characters of the book which plot continuously changes. If you like David Lynch's movies you'll probably like this one, too. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Christoffer Boe has an eccentric way of portraying not only love but also its counterparts. How we, as human beings plea in need for love, how it is supposed to surprise us and how we all strive with the fear of losing something (or someone) we might not even possess (anymore) in the very first place. But overall, Boe speaks about our ultimate fear: the fear of being forgotten. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member That's how it always ends. A bit of magic, a bit of smoke. Something floating... One of my all-time favs Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Intensa, muy poà (C)tica, con esas dosis griegas y el desamor olvidado al estilo de Gondry hace del trabajo de Boe una magistral y confusa puesta en escena, bordeando entre Lynch y el lirismo pesimista de Haneke. Muy recomendable. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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