"Let's start at the beginning..."...and already warn his audience:
"Remember, this is only a movie. Imagination."
The Danish Christoffer Boe's debut is one of the most impressive ones in the last decade. He just came out from the film school but played immediately with the film language as a professional. Crazy plot? Tricky story? I think both. What we know "for sure", that there are four people (Alex, Simone, Aimee and August) who are searching for love. And the film is searching for its shape, too. Through August's narration the story – which is his book in making – tries to constructs a love, or even reconstructs something which is disappearing.
Ok, I know it sounds more enigmatic as it used to be, but what should I say if the plot and even the story are getting more and more enigmatic (I've seen years ago the film, but I admit after watching again I still don't get all the points)? If the narrator, Aimee's husband writes the ongoing story, changing rapidly for the book's sake? If it turns out that maybe Simone and Aimee are the same? Maybe we have only three characters? Or even just two? Alex and Simone? And Aimee just a dream of Alex ("If I'm your dream, then you're mine."), and their story is written by the narrator-writer August from some outer frame?
Who knows? More precise: Who cares? By the way: What happened Last year at Marienbad?
Anyway. Mark my voice: watch it (or at least listen to it: if Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings was perfect in Stone's Platoon or Lynch's The Elephant Man, then here is 'only' beautiful...)!
9/10
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