Metascore
48 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 7
  2. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. 70
    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.
  2. 63
    Stengarde gives an arresting performance as a mentally unstable woman.
  3. Never quite knows where it's going - which is especially frustrating, since it takes such a long and painful path to get there.
  4. 50
    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.
  5. A disturbing, somewhat repellent portrait of a depressed middle-class woman's struggle to live comfortably in the world.
  6. Reviewed by: Eddie Cockrell
    40
    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.
  7. 30
    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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