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Kira's Reason: A Love Story

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Kira's Reason: A Love Story reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Foreign

Written by: Ole Christian Madsen
Mogens Rukov

Directed by: Ole Christian Madsen

Release Date:
Theatrical: January 17, 2003
DVD: September 23, 2003

Running Time: 93 minutes, Color

Origin: Denmark

Language(s): Danish (with English subtitles)

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Stine Stengade, Lars Mikkelsen, Sven Wollter, Camilla Bendix, Ronnie Hiort Lorenzen, Oliver Appelt Nielsen, Lotte Bergstrøm, and Nicolas Bro

Kira (Stengade) is a young woman and mother of two who has recently been released from a two year stay at a mental institution. Arriving home in the care of her husband, Mads (Mikkelsen), this film tells the story of her difficult road to recovery and readjustment in the world outside psychiatric treatment, made more difficult by her discovery that Mads had an affair during her hospitalization.

What The Critics Said

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The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

Until its pat, implausible conclusion, the film has the edgy nerve of a classic amour fou, charting a complex relationship with the sort of bumpy, unpredictable spirit that would do Cassavetes proud.

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63

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Stengarde gives an arresting performance as a mentally unstable woman.

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50

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

An unvarnished look at the emotional havoc that ensues when middle-class housewife Kira (Stine Stengade) returns home after a lengthy stay in a mental hospital, anchored by devastating performances.

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50

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Never quite knows where it's going - which is especially frustrating, since it takes such a long and painful path to get there.

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50

The New York Times Stephen Holden

A disturbing, somewhat repellent portrait of a depressed middle-class woman's struggle to live comfortably in the world.

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40

Variety Eddie Cockrell

It often resembles John Cassavetes' "A Woman Under the Influence," but just as often devolves into a series of bravura acting exercises strung together by an increasingly sketchy narrative theme.

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30

Village Voice Laura Sinagra

Another in a line of Dogme half-wits whose madness is posited as a state of tortured grace, the young wife in Kira's Reason is a woman well past the verge.

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