Reconstruction (2003)

I didn't know much about this Danish film before viewing it, but it turned out to be an intriguing meditation on the nature of self -- and I suspect a second viewing will be necessary before I grasp the full meaning of the conceit played out.  A young man presumably happily in love with his girlfriend sees another woman and is immediately smitten, especially since she looks very much like his love.  The two women are in fact played by the same actress but with sufficiently different hair and make-up that one is tempted to think they are two different people. An affair of sorts begins much to the consternation of the girlfriend and the woman's husband, but out of the blue his girlfriend denies ever knowing him and even his father does not recognise him.  And by the end the woman is preparing to leave town with her husband, not recalling the young man as having had any part in her life.  Some scenes are duplicated with small variations and the narrator at the start and finish reminds us that in a movie anything is possible at the whim of the director, who can if he chooses reconstruct the so-called facts of what we are watching and what we think we understand.  Very scandinavian indeed.