Watch: Reconstruction 2003 123movies, Full Movie Online – Late one evening, Alex suddenly abandons his girlfriend, Simone, to follow the beautiful Aimee. In his encounter with Aimee, time and place dissolve for him and he becomes a stranger to Simone, towards whom he cannot return. Alex’s future, is Aimee’s love. But will he have the courage to embrace it? A psychological romantic drama, about a man, who forgets about his past and must put his faith in love, in order to gain a future..
Plot: Late one evening Alex suddenly abandons his girlfriend, Simone, to pursue the beautiful Aimee. In his encounter with Aimee time and place dissolve for him and he becomes a stranger to Simone, to whom he cannot return.
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Reconstruction: Life can be confusing, especially relationships with people we think we know.
Is this a true, fictional narrative, or is it the figment of the fictional writer’s imagination? If that sounds contradictory, then it gives you some inkling about the substance or lack thereof of this most confusing and yet most intriguing film.Is this a film about filming a narrative? Is it a film about two narratives one real fiction, one imaginary fiction? Or, is it simply a film designed to act as a metaphor for the total uncertainty about human relationships? Perhaps, it’s all three… or simply an illusion?
As it unfolds, we meet a very confused young man, Alex (Nikolaj Lei Kaas) who seems to be in love with the same woman who exists in two different realities and, yet, who co-exist in the same city. On the one hand, Alex is associated with Simone (Maria Bonnevie) definitely and yet, he meets another woman, Aimee (again, Maria Bonnevie), who looks exactly like Simone, in another part of town.
Whereas Simone is definitely single, Aimee is apparently married to August, a writer who is in town to give some lectures on the art of writing. At the same time, August is also trying to finish his novel that is a love story, but he’s having trouble trying to decide what “the young man” of his story should do and he tells Aimee about his dilemma while they sit in their hotel room.
So, while August is discussing the progress of his narrative with his publisher, Monica (Ida Dwinger), young Alex is roaming all over the city trying to understand how it is that both women appear to know him for some of the time, and at other times, he appears to be a stranger to them. Frantically, he rushes from café, to a bar, to a restaurant, to another bar, desperately trying to come to grips with his concept of his reality which, oddly enough, doesn’t appear to jive with the reality of anybody that Alex thinks he knows…
Totally confused now? Well, you should be, because I think Reconstruction is an experimental film that tries to show just how confusing every person’s sense of their own reality must be not only for each person, but to others around them also.
You think you really, really know your girlfriend, your wife, your boyfriend, your husband, your lover? This film, I think, forces you to reflect (no pun intended) upon that existential problem, a very real problem for every living person, whether or not we know it. The camera work is also experimental, and some of it is quite original in its construction. You’ll know what I mean when you see it that is, if you’re prepared to watch it.
Definitely not a film for action fans or the ‘braindead’.
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Reconstruction (2003) is not your standard Danish movie. To begin with, it’s not a dogma movie but neither is it a crime/comedy in the style of Flickering Lights. You could say it is something quite different, but that would be to easy…What we get is a story that blends the real with the imagined. Krister Henriksson (“Wallander – Innan frosten”) plays a Swedish author/lecturer August who is in Copenhagen with his much younger wife Aimee (Maria Bonnevie, “I Am Dina”). As he is busy all day long his wife seems to get more and more estranged from him. In another part of the city is Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kaas, “Flickering Lights”) who lives with his girlfriend Simone, also played by Bonnevie. Alex abandons Simone after a dinner at a restaurant and heads for the train. Then suddenly, by coincidence, Alex meets Aimee and they seem to fall in love immediately. But the next morning everything is not what it seemed to be the night before.
What begins like a Danish variation of Unfaithful (Gere-Lane-Martinez triangle) quickly becomes much more like Memento. Everything in Alex’ life changes and people he used to know don’t recognize him, like Simone and his best friend Leo (Nicolas Bro, “The Green Butchers”). What you get then is a wonderful movie with plenty to think about, and certainly one that won’t take anything for granted. What is being written down is all we might get, what is real might be imagined.
Beautifully shot and directed by Christoffer Boe, it well deservedly won the Golden Camera and Le Label regard jeune awards at Cannes Film Festival.
**** (4 out of 5)
Original Language da
Runtime 1 hr 31 min (91 min) (Argentina), 1 hr 30 min (90 min) (USA), 1 hr 31 min (91 min) (Cannes) (France), 1 hr 29 min (89 min) (Filmfest Hamburg) (Germany), 1 hr 32 min (92 min) (original)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Christoffer Boe
Writer Christoffer Boe, Mogens Rukov
Actors Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Maria Bonnevie, Krister Henriksson
Country Denmark
Awards 12 wins & 11 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arriflex 16 SR3
Laboratory Duckling A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark, Filmteknik, Copenhagen, Denmark
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 16 mm
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (master format), Super 16
Printed Film Format 16 mm, 35 mm (anamorphic) (blow-up)