I had never seen a Danish movie before and it took me a while to figure out where the movie was based since the characters talk (in Danish and Swedish) so much about going to Rome. But that was just a small thing. The whole movie is even more intriguing and incomprehensible at times."Reconstruction" is a psychological drama involving a mature woman, adultery, and mind-bending events. The plot is simple: A married woman (Aimee, played by Maria Bonnevie) in a sexless marriage to an always-busy writer August (played Krister Henriksson) gets attracted to a younger, passionate man (Alex, played by Nikolaj Lie Kaas) who sees great chemistry in her and has no hesitation in leaving her girlfriend (Simone, also played by Maria Bonnevie). But not everything is so simple and straightforward.
Director Christoffer Boe has made a movie in which if you feel dizzy, consider that normal. It is hard to figure out what is real and what is just the imagination of the characters. For all we know, even some of the charactes may exist only in the mind of the others (August, who is an author, may very well be creating a plot for his new book). The movie is painfully slow and if you don't have the patience of watching the whole thing, better stop sooner rather than later (though if that happens you will probably watch it till the end).
You might even wonder what is the whole point of the movie, but that is not what the director had in mind. In and by itself, almost every minute of the movie is beautifully done and that itself is enough reason to watch. Many reviewers on the web recommend that you watch the movie several times to appreciate all the complexities, but I think if you realize that imaginative people can create a parallel universe and live in it, you will get it. As one reviewer says, "If you like artsy films or films with deep meanings then this may be a good film for you. If you don't really like vague and confusing endings (at first) and are more of a person to watch happy-ending films then this definitely isn't the film for you. And if you aren't open-minded artistically you probably won't like this film either as you will spend most of your time trying to analyze the theme of love in the film while it covers much deeper issues than that."