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Reconstruction
Palm Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Nikolaj Lie Kaas,
Maria Bonnevie,
Krister Henriksson,
Nicolas Bro,
Helle Fagralid,
Peter Steen,
Malene Schwartz,
and
Ida Dwinger
A twisty and entertaining Kieslowski-like urban love story. (Palm Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
Foreign
|
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Christoffer Boe
Mogens Rukov
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Christoffer Boe
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: April 12, 2005
Theatrical: September 10, 2004
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
90 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Denmark |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Danish / Swedish (with English subtitles) |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Reconstruction has a poetic sensibility, as well as an old-fashioned Continental appetite for romance, that makes it distinctive.

80
Dallas Observer
Jean Oppenheimer
This intriguing jigsaw puzzle is visually arresting, narratively inventive, and psychologically enigmatic.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It is a fascinating dance between style and substance.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The influence of Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier looms heavily over the whole film.

75
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
Uber-hip technique triumphs over substance in Reconstruction.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
The director has a natural's gift for storytelling and eye for casting.

70
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Mr. Boe keeps a safe distance from his characters' inner lives, he does succeed in conjuring an atmosphere of elegant melancholy and metaphysical anxiety.

70
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
Everything blends in a haze of longing, so that watching it feels like being in love.

70
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Reconstruction means to be confusing, and is. It also means to intrigue us, and does.
67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Features a supernatural twist that is merely okay, but the film's mood of fractured anxiety and longing made me eager to see what the director, Christoffer Boe, does next.

63
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
This languorous art movie is somewhat like "Memento," with its narrative fragments and memory mixups. It never explains itself, which means that the audience, like the protagonists, must take a leap of faith.

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Though ultimately the film is all smoke and mirrors, the sensibility it reflects is rich and exciting.

60
The Hollywood Reporter
Duane Byrge
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.

60
Empire
Patrick Peters
Both women are impeccably played by Maria Bonnevie.

50
Chicago Reader
Mark Peranson
Directed with confidence, but it's extremely pretentious--the boy-meets-girl equivalent of Lars von Trier's The Element of Crime.

50
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
Valiant attempt to innovate in the well-trod realm of Boy Meets Girl doesn't quite coalesce despite a thoughtful and distinctive visual approach.

50
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
That Reconstruction is even remotely involving is due to the quality of its acting.

50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The movie is so chilly and fundamentally empty at its core that we're more or less on the outside looking in.

40
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Noel Murray
Reconstruction doesn't evoke much emotion beyond cool ennui. At that, the film excels.

40
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
Eventually it all starts to feel like an extended European perfume ad: pretty but eye-rollingly pretentious.


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