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+ Best Art Film of the Year + Best Copenhagen Movie of the Year + Best Debut Movie of the Year + Best Romance of the Year
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| The stars meet romantically on this beautiful poster for Christoffer Boe's Reconstruction, which undeniably aestheticizes smoking cigarettes |
A man in a relationship suddenly falls for an unknown woman named Aimee and follows her, finding that she is also already entangled. But their connection is powerful all the same.
Reconstruction is written by Mogens Rukov (Elise (1985)) and great debuting Danish co-writer/director Christoffer Boe (Beast (2011)). A salute should go out to Boe for injecting a strong dose of Parisian elegance into Danish cinema with this delectable love mystery. And yet Reconstruction still seems so Copenhagen and Nordic still.
The film has a sommelier restaurant scene that may be putting on airs a bit, and the drama at times seems somewhat secondary and diffuse, - but it gets a renaissance later in the emotional finale.
Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Just Another Love Story/Kærlighed på Film (2007)), Krister Henriksson (Faithless/Trolösa (2000)) and Maria Bonnevie (I Am Dina (2002)) give brilliant performances, and especially Bonnevie is fantastic.
Reconstruction features innovative, inspiring photography by Manuel Alberto Claro (Nymphomaniac: Vol. I & II (2013)) on Super16, masked to CinemaScope format in editing. It is a hard-to-explain film of existential fear stemming from a story of the construction of a love story that evolves into a classical mystery. Somehow the unlikely thing happens and this all comes together, making Reconstruction one of the first highly distinctive and memorable Danish films of the new millennium.
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2003 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2003 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
Cost: Unknown
Box office: Around 1 mil. $
= Uncertain - but likely a huge flop
[Reconstruction premiered 18 May (Cannes Film Festival, France) and runs 91 minutes. Shooting took place in Copenhagen, Denmark. The film enjoyed an extensive release of foreign markets and festivals for a Danish film. It sold 51,523 tickets in its production country Denmark, not bad for an art film, raking in approximately 515k $ (51.5 % of the total gross). It opened #81 to a 13k $ first weekend in 2 theaters in North America, where it never rose in rank but spread to 9 theaters and grossed 73k $ (7.3 %). North America was the 5th largest market; the largest was Denmark, followed by Argentina with 113k $ (11.3 %) and Russia with 90k $ (9 %). If the film was made on a probable low budget of around 2 mil. $, it would rank as a huge flop. It won 2 minor prizes in Cannes, was nominated for a European Film award and won 2/6 Robert nominations (Denmark's Oscar). Boe returned with Visions of Europe (2004, segment) and feature-wise with Allegro (2005). Kaas returned in Dogville: The Pilot (2003, short) and theatrically in Brothers/Brødre (2004); Bonnevie in Let's Play House/Mamma Pappa Barn (2003). Reconstruction is fresh at 72 % with a 6.29/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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