Reconstruction
Screened
Chicago International Film Festival
CHICAGO -- Franz Kafka travels to Bergman-land in "Reconstruction", a startling visual psychodrama that drew overflow audiences at the Festival de Cannes as well as at the Chicago International Film Festival. Manuel Alberto Claro won the Palm d'Or for cinematography and has garnered the same distinction here where "Reconstruction" buzzed its way to sell-out crowds. Palm Pictures could lure similar select-site enthusiasm based on the film's fluently cinematic scopes.
Admittedly, the plotline is merely the surface scratch of deeper probings as Alex Nikolaj Lie Kaas), a handsome Dane, has a brief nocturnal encounter with Aimee (Maria Bonnevie). Not surprisingly, they're both in other relationships -- he with a devoted girlfriend (also played by Bonnevie), which reaches for obvious "Persona"-like issues, and she with an older writer, played by Max von Sydow. No, wait, it's not von Sydow, but the latest in the line of such Bergman mentor/lovers, re-limned with requisite severity by Nicolas Bro. In this case, the derivative scenario is swirled by facile absurdity: After the affair, Alex's world disappears -- his apartment no longer exits, his friends don't remember him, etc. Soon, the novelty of the story mix wears thin.
Despite the high piffle of the psychology and the arched abstraction of the story line, "Reconstruction" is well crafted. Under director Christoffer Boe's cagey hand, the pacing is sleek and the cinematography evocative. Claro's compositions are vigorously stylish: The sterile hues meld perfectly with the off-kilter framings, creating an emotional mindscape that conveys the scattered nature of lives that have been indelibly altered by this one-time affair.
Reconstruction
Palm Pictures
Nordisk Film, Director's Cut, TV2 Denmark, HR Boe & Co.
Credits:
Producer: Tine Grew Pfieffer
Director: Christoffer Boe
Screenwriters: Christoffer Boe, Mogens Rukov
Co-producers: Lars Akjeldgard, Ake Sandgren
Director of photography: Manuel Alberto Claro
Production designer: Martin de Thurah
Editors: Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, Peter Brandt
Music: Thomas Knak
Costume designer: Gabi Humnicki
Sound mixer: Morten Green
Cast:
Alex: Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Aimee/Simone: Maria Bonnevie
August: Krister Henriksson
Leo: Nicolas Bro
Girl in Metro: Line Poulsen
Running time -- 91 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Chicago International Film Festival
CHICAGO -- Franz Kafka travels to Bergman-land in "Reconstruction", a startling visual psychodrama that drew overflow audiences at the Festival de Cannes as well as at the Chicago International Film Festival. Manuel Alberto Claro won the Palm d'Or for cinematography and has garnered the same distinction here where "Reconstruction" buzzed its way to sell-out crowds. Palm Pictures could lure similar select-site enthusiasm based on the film's fluently cinematic scopes.
Admittedly, the plotline is merely the surface scratch of deeper probings as Alex Nikolaj Lie Kaas), a handsome Dane, has a brief nocturnal encounter with Aimee (Maria Bonnevie). Not surprisingly, they're both in other relationships -- he with a devoted girlfriend (also played by Bonnevie), which reaches for obvious "Persona"-like issues, and she with an older writer, played by Max von Sydow. No, wait, it's not von Sydow, but the latest in the line of such Bergman mentor/lovers, re-limned with requisite severity by Nicolas Bro. In this case, the derivative scenario is swirled by facile absurdity: After the affair, Alex's world disappears -- his apartment no longer exits, his friends don't remember him, etc. Soon, the novelty of the story mix wears thin.
Despite the high piffle of the psychology and the arched abstraction of the story line, "Reconstruction" is well crafted. Under director Christoffer Boe's cagey hand, the pacing is sleek and the cinematography evocative. Claro's compositions are vigorously stylish: The sterile hues meld perfectly with the off-kilter framings, creating an emotional mindscape that conveys the scattered nature of lives that have been indelibly altered by this one-time affair.
Reconstruction
Palm Pictures
Nordisk Film, Director's Cut, TV2 Denmark, HR Boe & Co.
Credits:
Producer: Tine Grew Pfieffer
Director: Christoffer Boe
Screenwriters: Christoffer Boe, Mogens Rukov
Co-producers: Lars Akjeldgard, Ake Sandgren
Director of photography: Manuel Alberto Claro
Production designer: Martin de Thurah
Editors: Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, Peter Brandt
Music: Thomas Knak
Costume designer: Gabi Humnicki
Sound mixer: Morten Green
Cast:
Alex: Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Aimee/Simone: Maria Bonnevie
August: Krister Henriksson
Leo: Nicolas Bro
Girl in Metro: Line Poulsen
Running time -- 91 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 7/9/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Reconstruction
Screened
Chicago International Film Festival
CHICAGO -- Franz Kafka travels to Bergman-land in "Reconstruction", a startling visual psychodrama that drew overflow audiences at the Festival de Cannes as well as at the Chicago International Film Festival. Manuel Alberto Claro won the Palm d'Or for cinematography and has garnered the same distinction here where "Reconstruction" buzzed its way to sell-out crowds. Palm Pictures could lure similar select-site enthusiasm based on the film's fluently cinematic scopes.
Admittedly, the plotline is merely the surface scratch of deeper probings as Alex Nikolaj Lie Kaas), a handsome Dane, has a brief nocturnal encounter with Aimee (Maria Bonnevie). Not surprisingly, they're both in other relationships -- he with a devoted girlfriend (also played by Bonnevie), which reaches for obvious "Persona"-like issues, and she with an older writer, played by Max von Sydow. No, wait, it's not von Sydow, but the latest in the line of such Bergman mentor/lovers, re-limned with requisite severity by Nicolas Bro. In this case, the derivative scenario is swirled by facile absurdity: After the affair, Alex's world disappears -- his apartment no longer exits, his friends don't remember him, etc. Soon, the novelty of the story mix wears thin.
Despite the high piffle of the psychology and the arched abstraction of the story line, "Reconstruction" is well crafted. Under director Christoffer Boe's cagey hand, the pacing is sleek and the cinematography evocative. Claro's compositions are vigorously stylish: The sterile hues meld perfectly with the off-kilter framings, creating an emotional mindscape that conveys the scattered nature of lives that have been indelibly altered by this one-time affair.
Reconstruction
Palm Pictures
Nordisk Film, Director's Cut, TV2 Denmark, HR Boe & Co.
Credits:
Producer: Tine Grew Pfieffer
Director: Christoffer Boe
Screenwriters: Christoffer Boe, Mogens Rukov
Co-producers: Lars Akjeldgard, Ake Sandgren
Director of photography: Manuel Alberto Claro
Production designer: Martin de Thurah
Editors: Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, Peter Brandt
Music: Thomas Knak
Costume designer: Gabi Humnicki
Sound mixer: Morten Green
Cast:
Alex: Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Aimee/Simone: Maria Bonnevie
August: Krister Henriksson
Leo: Nicolas Bro
Girl in Metro: Line Poulsen
Running time -- 91 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Chicago International Film Festival
CHICAGO -- Franz Kafka travels to Bergman-land in "Reconstruction", a startling visual psychodrama that drew overflow audiences at the Festival de Cannes as well as at the Chicago International Film Festival. Manuel Alberto Claro won the Palm d'Or for cinematography and has garnered the same distinction here where "Reconstruction" buzzed its way to sell-out crowds. Palm Pictures could lure similar select-site enthusiasm based on the film's fluently cinematic scopes.
Admittedly, the plotline is merely the surface scratch of deeper probings as Alex Nikolaj Lie Kaas), a handsome Dane, has a brief nocturnal encounter with Aimee (Maria Bonnevie). Not surprisingly, they're both in other relationships -- he with a devoted girlfriend (also played by Bonnevie), which reaches for obvious "Persona"-like issues, and she with an older writer, played by Max von Sydow. No, wait, it's not von Sydow, but the latest in the line of such Bergman mentor/lovers, re-limned with requisite severity by Nicolas Bro. In this case, the derivative scenario is swirled by facile absurdity: After the affair, Alex's world disappears -- his apartment no longer exits, his friends don't remember him, etc. Soon, the novelty of the story mix wears thin.
Despite the high piffle of the psychology and the arched abstraction of the story line, "Reconstruction" is well crafted. Under director Christoffer Boe's cagey hand, the pacing is sleek and the cinematography evocative. Claro's compositions are vigorously stylish: The sterile hues meld perfectly with the off-kilter framings, creating an emotional mindscape that conveys the scattered nature of lives that have been indelibly altered by this one-time affair.
Reconstruction
Palm Pictures
Nordisk Film, Director's Cut, TV2 Denmark, HR Boe & Co.
Credits:
Producer: Tine Grew Pfieffer
Director: Christoffer Boe
Screenwriters: Christoffer Boe, Mogens Rukov
Co-producers: Lars Akjeldgard, Ake Sandgren
Director of photography: Manuel Alberto Claro
Production designer: Martin de Thurah
Editors: Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, Peter Brandt
Music: Thomas Knak
Costume designer: Gabi Humnicki
Sound mixer: Morten Green
Cast:
Alex: Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Aimee/Simone: Maria Bonnevie
August: Krister Henriksson
Leo: Nicolas Bro
Girl in Metro: Line Poulsen
Running time -- 91 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 11/12/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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