Reconstruction
(2003)
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Reconstruction turns romantic drama inside out, laying bare the emotions and psychology of passion in an explosion of images. Protagonist, Alex, a photographer, and beautiful Aimee, meet by chance and fall in love in the course of one intense day in Copenhagen. After just one night together, both must return to their partners and domestic lives, but as Alex lifts his key to the door of his flat, he finds it no longer there. And so begins the sinking realization that he has unwittingly crossed a spatio-temporal line.... |
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Danish director Christoffer Boe explores the relationship between cinema and literature in this teasingly film noir-like mystery that recalls some of David Lynch's more unusual movies. Tempted into a fling with novelist Krister Henriksson's glamorous wife, photographer Nikolaj Lie Kaas awakes in a seemingly alternative universe, where neither friends nor family know him and he suspects he's being manipulated by a higher force. Playing fast and loose with the rules of storytelling, Boe delights in misleading the viewer, a conceit made easier by the fact that both the women in Kaas's life are played by the bewitching Maria Bonnevie. Tricksy, calculated and occasionally self-conscious, this is definitely worth the experience.