It appears that after being released in Denmark on an excellent DVD (sadly without English subs) RECONSTRUCTION is now coming to the US offered by Palm Pictures.

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US SYNOPSYS

Increasingly cool towards his wife Aimee, yet haunted by jealousy, August starts to invent the story of her infidelity. Enter Alex, a charismatic young photographer who dreams of a romance beyond what he has with girlfriend his Simone. After a night with Aimee, Alex wakes to find that he has become, in a significant and literal way, a different person. Cristoffer Boe's debut feature is a twisty and entertaining Kieslowski-like urban love story that plays with form and style in ways that will surprise you and keep audiences talking about it for a long time.

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Trailer- http://www.palmpictures.com/videopla...mple_only=true

(from the old thread about the R2 edition)

Christoffer Boe's Reconstruction played at the Hong Kong Film Festival and most notably it won the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 2003.

Here's a short synopsis from the film's screening in Chicago via www.bpiq.com:


"Reconstruction

By Duane Byrge

CHICAGO -- Franz Kafka travels to Bergman-land in "Reconstruction," a startling visual psychodrama that drew overflow audiences at the Festival de Cannes as well as at the Chicago International Film Festival. Manuel Alberto Claro won the Palm d'Or for cinematography and has garnered the same distinction here where "Reconstruction" buzzed its way to sell-out crowds. Palm Pictures could lure similar select-site enthusiasm based on the film's fluently cinematic scopes.

Admittedly, the plotline is merely the surface scratch of deeper probings as Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kaas), a handsome Dane, has a brief nocturnal encounter with Aimee (Maria Bonnevie). Not surprisingly, they're both in other relationships -- he with a devoted girlfriend (also played by Bonnevie), which reaches for obvious "Persona"-like issues, and she with an older writer, played by Max von Sydow. No, wait, it's not von Sydow, but the latest in the line of such Bergman mentor/lovers, re-limned with requisite severity by Nicolas Bro. In this case, the derivative scenario is swirled by facile absurdity: After the affair, Alex's world disappears -- his apartment no longer exits, his friends don't remember him, etc. Soon, the novelty of the story mix wears thin.

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: The sterile hues meld perfectly with the off-kilter framings, creating an emotional mindscape that conveys the scattered nature of lives that have been indelibly altered by this one-time affair.

Reconstruction
Palm Pictures
Nordisk Film, Director's Cut, TV2 Denmark, HR Boe & Co.
Credits:
Producer: Tine Grew Pfieffer
Director: Christoffer Boe
Screenwriters: Christoffer Boe, Mogens Rukov
Co-producers: Lars Akjeldgard, Ake Sandgren
Director of photography: Manuel Alberto Claro
Production designer: Martin de Thurah
Editors: Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, Peter Brandt
Music: Thomas Knak
Costume designer: Gabi Humnicki
Sound mixer: Morten Green
Cast:
Alex: Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Aimee/Simone: Maria Bonnevie
August: Krister Henriksson
Leo: Nicolas Bro
Girl in Metro: Line Poulsen
Running time -- 91 minutes"








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Christoffer Boe: Born 1974, Denmark. Graduated in film and media at the University of Copenhagen, 1996, and in direction at the National Film School of Denmark, 2001. His graduation film "Anxiety" received the Prix Decouverte de la Critique Francais as well as the Nordisk Film Award 2001."Reconstruction" is Boe's feature film debut. The film received the prestigious Camera d'Or award at Cannes and was also awarded the Youth Jury Award at the 42nd International Critics' Week (Semaine de la Critique).

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Original Danish release cover art




Cheers,
Pro-B

This film is briliant! So beautiful! Very Lynch...
See it!
BTW im from Denmark,....

Well, the film was just released theatrically in the U.S on September 10th so it's gonna be a little while till we see it on dvd.

Screening schedule for the next couple of months (more dates will be added)

Fri Oct 08 - Stamford, CT - Avon Twin

Fri Oct 08 - Huntington, NY - Cinema Arts Center

Fri Oct 08 - Seattle, WA - Landmark Metro Cinemas 10

Fri Oct 15 - Atlanta, GA - Landmark Midtown Art Cinema

Fri Oct 15 - Delray Beach, FL - Regal Delray Beach 18

Fri Oct 15 - Boca Raton, FL - Regal Shadowood Square 16

Fri Oct 15 - Miami, FL - Regal South Beach 18

Fri Oct 22 - San Francisco, CA - Landmark Lumiere 3

Fri Oct 22 - Berkeley, CA - Landmark Shattuck 8 Cinemas

Fri Oct 29 - Waltham, MA - Landmark Embassy Cinema

Fri Oct 29 - Cambridge, MA - Landmark Kendall Square

Fri Oct 29 - Las Vegas, NV - Regal Village Square 18

Fri Oct 29 - Atlanta, GA - Landmark Midtown Art Cinema

Fri Oct 29 - Chicago, IL - Music Box Theatre

Tue Nov 02 - Lawrence, KS - University of Kansas

Fri Nov 12 - Palm Desert, CA - Flagship Cinemas Palme d'Or

Fri Nov 26 - Peekskill, NY - Paramount Center

Fri Dec 03 - Indianapolis, IN - Key Cinema

That sounds like an interesting movie. I wouldn't mind seeing it.

I have preliminary information pointing towards a late January/Feb. dvd release ...but I can not confirm the exact date as of yet. I will post here when I get a confirmation.

THANK YOU for posting the showtimes/locations.

Cheers,
Pro-B

update....




Pro-B