Venice. Offscreen.

"Turning away from the pyrotechnics that made his first two films - Reconstruction and Allegro - so distinctive, Danish helmer Christoffer Boe opts for a scruffy, ultra-realist look in Offscreen," writes Variety's Leslie Felperin, who finds it ultimately "feels like an empty aesthetic exercise or filmmaking in-joke."

"In the film, a director called Christoffer Boe is called upon to create a film using the footage left by actor Nicolas Bro, who has gone missing," explains Boyd van Hoeij At europeanfilms.net, where he alos takes down a few quotes from Boe: "I love to explore who controls fiction, who is telling the story, and this is a first person narration from another person than me." Van Hoeij: "The film's final scenes show in what kind of genre you might end up if you start relying too much on a film to sort out your life. Hint: it is not pretty to look at."

Update, 9/8: Cineuropa interviews Boe and Bro.

Posted by dwhudson at September 3, 2006 1:08 PM