Lack of good storyline.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

"This is how it always ends - a little magic, a little smoke, something floating. We begin like this. It's not like the beginning - so take it easy. But it's important. Believe me." Christoffer Boe's debut film is a mesmerizing love story that challenges the viewer to follow his ever changing storyline in a very unique way. Boe warns "it's not so complicated - there are four people - Aimee and I, August - we are married. Then there's Alex, the young photographer and his beautiful girlfriend Simone - they're not married. Alex and Aimee are going to meet." Boe creatively injects himself into the role of August, an author. "They're all looking for love" and thus the story begins. The surrealism that follows is captivating. August continually plays with, or reconstructs the storyline, which in turn affects Alex - essentially transforming him into a free-falling bystander of his own life, leaving him to deal with the choices he himself didn't actually make - but after all, he's just a fictional character from August's writings.This personal favorite of mine is a testament that creativity, beautiful camera work and editing, solid acting, and the right choice of music can overcome the budget restraints most debuting directors face. This stylish film will not disappoint. It is all film. It is all construction.

Grainy flicker. A smoking man comes on the screen. He performs a piece of legerdemain with his cigarette. Soft, hypnotic voice-over in Danish. "It's just a movie. It's all constructed. But it hurts anyway." Lars von Trier's cinematic creed? The voice of God? The opening scene, I think I have seen it before. I know I *meant* to see the movie at a recent festival, but I also know that I didn't. Maybe on TV? The next scene, it's set in a hotel I think I know. I do! It's the Copenhagen Airport Hilton. I have stayed there, traveling for work. As I walk out of the theater, Cole Porter playing over the closing credits, I see a blonde girl in pointed boots who is the spitting image of Maria Bonnevie, Christoffer Boe's lovely leading lady. She tries to talk her boyfriend into taking a cab, what with the rain and all. It's that kind of movie.

This film will not appeal to the average person and, I suppose, it never was intended for a mass audience. Instead, it appears to be an experimental-type film that challenges the viewer to find their own meaning, if any, from the film. The movie seems to have no real start or finish and bounces back and forth in time. Additionally, reality is often twisted and people in the movie who you saw interacting with the lead character suddenly have no idea who he is and claim to have never met him. If the film had maintained this viewpoint, it would have been very reminiscent of the TV show NOWHERE MAN, but it did not. Again, inexplicably, characters who seemed to have forgotten who he was suddenly know who he is once again.The film looks as if the writer took many versions of the same story and spliced them all together with no regard to WHEN and HOW the splices were pieced together. This is certainly NOT the type film I enjoy, though I did appreciate that they were trying to do something different.

"Reconstruction" was an excellent movie. Some have renounced it for its little tricks. Shame on them. While the little tricks themselves weren't impressive, they contributed to the film's ideas. Maria Bonnevie was enchanting. Interestingly, when I left the theater, I felt as though I knew (and perhaps loved) Aimee even though she was a construction, a fiction about whom next to nothing was revealed. In this manner, Alex and I bonded although there is no Alex. This movie was something that viewers can feel. I loved the skepticism. I enjoyed belong dazzled by the beauty only to have it taken away. Was it ever there? There is an honesty in "Reconstruction" that is rare in cinema. This movie wasn't especially subtle in its nihilism, which was fine. Anything more subtle would have been wasted on many, maybe even me. Who knows?