Director
Christoffer Boe

Cast
Alex David: Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Simone/Aimee: Maria Bonnevie
August Holm: Krister Henriksson
Leo Sand: Nicolas Bro
Nan Sand: Helle Fagralid
Mel David: Peter Steen
Mrs Banum: Malene Schwartz
Monica: Ida Dwinger

Acclaimed at the 2003 London Film Festival, Reconstruction is an innovative take on the traditional romantic drama, laying bare the emotion and psychology of passion in an explosion of images.

Alex, a photographer, meets Aimee by chance and they fall in love during the course of an intense day-long affair in Copenhagen. After just one night together, both must return to their partners and domestic lives, but as Alex lifts his key to the door of his flat, he finds it no longer there. There begins what sounds like a plot lifted from an early episode of Star Trek - a shift of sorts in the space-time continuum but the developments are deftly handled, foregrounding Alex's decision about how much he is prepared to give up for his dreams of true love. Reality blurs, twists and begins to tear in this insightful and highly original look at the nature of fantasy; a contemporary take on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

The films echoes Bergman, Hitchcock and Lynch as one would expect of Boe, a graduate of the Danish film school, and is an innovative, intelligent and intriguing movie that deserves more than one viewing.