Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

paulo_alexis This Danish film tells us the story of an accomplished pianist, Zetterstrøm (Ulrich Thomsen), who returns to his native Copenhagen after spending 10 years abroad. Zetterstrøm is a virtuoso who is depicted as cold and emotionally detached man with a mysterious past. Upon his return to Copenhagen, he is lured to visit a segregated part of the town by an enigmatic invitation for a dinner. The 'place' is denominated the 'zone' and is where he used to live. Upon his return to Copenhagen, Zetterstrøm is overwhelmed with fragmented and 'undigested' memories and images from his mysterious past that he desperately tries to suture into a coherent narrative. The film depicts the intimate relationship between memory and identity (in the film, Zetterstrøm is hidden from the audiences during the concert). Despite not finding the acting excellent (I've seen a lot better from Ulrich Thomsen and Helena Christensen's debut performance was too insipid), I have to say that the film is conceptually very well structured. I found the cartoons and the 'timeline' very clever contextualising Zetterstrøm's perfectionism and 'sealing-over' (young boy putting a doll inside a box). The soundtrack is outstanding with classical compositions. The only negative aspect was that, at times, the film offers far too many explanations that are unnecessary and 'kill the romance'. I also found the long contemplative shots too 'cheesy' for my taste. On the positive note, I thought it was very clever the way compartmentalisation and dissociation were portrayed. His memories were 'isolated' and 'segregated' in the "zone" – forbidden and inaccessible area, which is surrounded by a façade - 'the zone' is both a geographical part of Copenhagen i.e. ghetto (political critique and social dimension) and a part of Zetterstrøm psyche - its' interiority and content. The 'Policemen' were outside the perimeter due to the presumed dangerousness of the 'zone', despite its inaccessibility. The 'zone' has oneiric qualities i.e. symmetrical logic, and is accessed through a 'public toilet' in a modern version of Wonderland. The streets and canals have an atmosphere of uncanniness which is perfectly constructed. The part where Christensen's corpse is emerged from the canal by the rescue team, the sutures in her abdomen reminded me of something grotesque and frankensteinian. In the last part of the film, Zetterstrøm tries to play his composition and the symptom 'emerges'. There is a clever 'displacement' and a 'return of the repressed'. Zetterstrøm is unable to play in tune - as he lacks 'emotional attunement' and no longer just emotionality in his interpretation. Overall, it's a very interesting and clever film, worth watching.

jotix100 Zetterstrom, a talented pianist, is seen at an early age playing a composition for his teacher. His career that takes off because of his talent, comes to a crossroad when he meets the beautiful Andrea one night when he is locked out of his apartment. It is obvious he loves her, yet, one notices a certain lack of commitment on his part. Andrea's love for Zetterman will end up in tragic consequences.The pianist goes to New York, where he is well regarded for his brilliant technique, returns to Copenhagen where things have changed dramatically. There is a part of the city that has been cut off from the rest where no one is allowed to enter. Zetterstrom is asked to visit a mysterious man and he is given secret instructions in how to get in "The Zone". His memory, it appears, has left him. As much as he tries, he doesn't seem to reconnect with his past.Zetterstrom receives an invitation to come to the Zone. Once there, the pianist meets a man in a wheelchair who instructs him to drink from a glass. He is leery, but decides to go along. What happens is that Zetterman's talent for playing the piano is gone forever as we searches in vain to regain it. Snippets of his past are seen in flashes leaving him frustrated because suddenly, he knows what went wrong in his relationship and personal life."Allegro", Christoffer Boe follow up after "Reconstruction" is an ambitious movie trying to combine on elements that we have seen in other films. The director goes into a territory that has been explored by other movies of the same subject. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "Alphaville" two other movies that come to mind, must have inspired Mr. Boe in his conception of the material. Best of of all is the cinematography of Manuel Alberto Claro that serves the story well.Ulrich Thomsen makes an appealing Zetterstrom and perhaps the best excuse for watching "Allegro". Gorgeous model turned actress Helena Christensen doesn't have much to do, although her part is not as important. Hennig Moritzen, who appears as Tom, makes an excellent contribution.

Argemaluco I think one of the biggest challenges all the filmmakers of the world have to confront is transforming a good idea into a solid and entertaining movie.I think that thing almost destroys Allegro,which starts with an ingenious idea,but the film has difficulty in keeping it interesting in 88 minutes.I think the concept behind this movie would have worked better in a short.The main idea behind this movie has been used in The Twilight Zone and that idea totally fixed in 30 minutes.With some differences,we see that idea in almost one hour and a half of running time and,in spite of that,director Cristoffer Boe shows some good scenes and an excellent visual presentation but the film gets a little bit boring and,on some moments,I felt it was going nowhere.The ending is good,but for landing on that,we had to see redundant scenes and some tedious moments.Allegro had an ingenious idea and I totally appreciated that.But the film found difficulty to develop it and there are some tedious scenes.I can recommend it without too much confidence.

hyti999 This film is one of the most over explaining and clumsy symbolic films I have seen in a very long time. It is simply straight out boring because it tries to be so "mysterious" all the time, but in fact it is quite a simple and unoriginal story. They are just trying to make it more interesting by using a lot of very heavy symbolism, instead of going in depth with the real story or the characters. It's very superficial and film school like. And almost everybody in the cinema were either sleeping or leaving before the film finished. And I wished I had done the same after wards. I just kept on thinking that something would happen. But it just didn't.Also the fact that Helena Christensen really can not act, even though she is very beautiful, is a big problem for the film. Being a photo model is obviously something very different from being an actress. It seems like the director just wished a beautiful face instead of a real character, and that is maybe more or less the problem of the whole film. It's not like for example a David Lynch film where you can feel that the mystery comes from something real. Something that the film maker actually knows something about.