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MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring Ulrich Thomsen, Helena Christensen, and Henning Moritzen
The director of Reconstruction, winner of the Cannes Camera d'Or in 2003, returns with Allegro, another mind-boggling exploration of his signature themes of love and memory. (International Film Circuit)
| GENRE(S): | Drama | Foreign |
| WRITTEN BY: |
Christoffer Boe
Mikael Wulff |
| DIRECTED BY: | Christoffer Boe |
| RELEASE DATE: | Theatrical: May 9, 2007 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 88 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | Denmark |
| LANGUAGE(S): | Danish (with English subtitles) |
Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema - Dramatic), 2006 Sundance Film Festival
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The average user rating for this movie is 7.5 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Lengyel G. gave it a10:
It is a masterpiece. I started to watch it half asleep and I was amazed.
Chad S. gave it a7:
"The Zone", in "Allegro", is a televised screen(like a desert vista in a Road Runner cartoon that the coyote would smash into) that contains a static representation of a Copenhagen neighborhood, which to me, vaguely recalls the use of back screen projection in Lars Von Trier's "Zentropa". So does the narration, even though it's not in second-person. If you ever wondered how a film scripted by Charlie Kaufman would look in the hands of an intellectually rigorous(rather than playful) filmmaker like Von Trier, "Allegro" is your movie. How Zetterstrom(Ulrich Thomsen) enters another world, an absurdest world("The Zone"), is reminiscent of "Being John Malkovich", and his memory erasure of a true love, Andrea(Helena Christensen), is similar to "Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind". Those two films were fun. "Allegro" is not. It does, however, has something interesting to say about the foolishness of loving your craft more than a human being. When Andrea abandons Zetterstorm after a recital, he erases her from his mind. When he loses his ability to play the piano, "Allegro" shows us how empty our lives are without love. Without his talent, Zetterstorm is nothing.
Tommy A. gave it an8:
Glad to see this is finally getting a wider release.
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