| "Allegro dwells on the romantic world in which character flaws and personal mistakes alter one's universe. ” |
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Allegro
DVD/APPROX 87 MINS/2005/DENMARK MA15+
DVD/APPROX 87 MINS/2005/DENMARK MA15+
3.5
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A lonely pianist; a cold, driven perfectionist of a man returns to Copenhagen for a gala performance. There he is struck by memories of a former
lover, and is ever more consumed by them, driven to seek out places which have since been closed. The area he longs to enter now is an
impenetrable area covered with a transparent barrier known as The Zone, which he is soon obsessed with penetrating. The effect of memory on
the individual psyche is the dominant theme in the Danish drama Allegro, a slow, remote and brooding film as delicate and evocative as it’s near
constant melancholic piano score.
Unusual animations and voice over narration add a sense of time passing, or storytelling and the idea of a life held to account for itself under the
spotlight of memory. Clever graphics set up the mysterious Zone as an almost hologramatic city within a city. The Zone is symbolic of memory’s
deep recesses – lost experiences that are longed for in age but inaccessible: that area of one’s past at once desired and forgotten in detail. The
longing for an idealized past, that hint of what could have been in life had a cold man not forsake human contact in his drive for perfectionism:
these are the contemplative undercurrents to the surface inter-personal drama in Allegro.
Increasingly evocative of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s last works, this bizarre exploration of people’s need for self-discovery and peace with
the past is philosophically speculative, often stark and naturalistically grim. Quiet despair saturates Allegro amidst moments of tenderness and a
trace of regret. But its an evasive, enigmatic and mysterious film which becomes stranger as it progresses, stylizing reality to suggest a surreal
level just within appearances – epitomized in the quest to enter The Zone. Kafka-esque as it proceeds, Allegro is a slow-going puzzle of a movie
experience with a pace that may prove alienating.
lover, and is ever more consumed by them, driven to seek out places which have since been closed. The area he longs to enter now is an
impenetrable area covered with a transparent barrier known as The Zone, which he is soon obsessed with penetrating. The effect of memory on
the individual psyche is the dominant theme in the Danish drama Allegro, a slow, remote and brooding film as delicate and evocative as it’s near
constant melancholic piano score.
Unusual animations and voice over narration add a sense of time passing, or storytelling and the idea of a life held to account for itself under the
spotlight of memory. Clever graphics set up the mysterious Zone as an almost hologramatic city within a city. The Zone is symbolic of memory’s
deep recesses – lost experiences that are longed for in age but inaccessible: that area of one’s past at once desired and forgotten in detail. The
longing for an idealized past, that hint of what could have been in life had a cold man not forsake human contact in his drive for perfectionism:
these are the contemplative undercurrents to the surface inter-personal drama in Allegro.
Increasingly evocative of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s last works, this bizarre exploration of people’s need for self-discovery and peace with
the past is philosophically speculative, often stark and naturalistically grim. Quiet despair saturates Allegro amidst moments of tenderness and a
trace of regret. But its an evasive, enigmatic and mysterious film which becomes stranger as it progresses, stylizing reality to suggest a surreal
level just within appearances – epitomized in the quest to enter The Zone. Kafka-esque as it proceeds, Allegro is a slow-going puzzle of a movie
experience with a pace that may prove alienating.
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