Of course, this happens frequently. You watch a film and become immersed in it or are transported by it, while at the same time, feeling the shivers of pleasure of a past experience, real or onscreen. And, in this case, as I watched, in Nuit Blanche, the slow motion track in on the lovers, surrounded by splintering glass, imagining in that moment that their fleeting love would destroy everything around them, I was reminded of sitting alone in a darkened room in Roseville, escaping for a couple of hours from a film workshop, stealing a viewing of the low budget Reconstruction in the projection room, and being completely surprised by this film about which I had heard or seen nothing.
The film features one of my favourite Danish actors, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, as Alex, a man who imagines a romantic connection with a woman that then appears to dissolve the world around him - his real lover no longer recognising him, his apartment disappearing, his friends and family, now strangers, disturbed by his insistence that they know each other. Although a simple premise - that the moment of falling in love changes the world around us - this film so beautifully unravels this idea into a world that uses the deftest touches of cinematic and literary trickery without ever betraying the very fragile emotions at it's heart. As it turns out, the screenplay was written by Boe and Mogens Rukov (about who I've written in the past) and was the first film produced out of Nordisk Film's 'Director's Cut' financing scheme which also turned out Jacob Thuesen's great drama Accused. I forgot how much I loved this film and now I need to see it again. Urgently.
"It is a film, it is all a construction. But even so, it hurts."From Reconstruction
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