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  • 2003
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2003
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 33 m

Summary 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 dis...

Directed By: Ole Christian Madsen

Written By: Mogens Rukov, Ole Christian Madsen

  • 2003
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2003
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 33 m

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Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary 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 dis...

Directed By: Ole Christian Madsen

Written By: Mogens Rukov, Ole Christian Madsen

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
48
29% Positive
2 Reviews
57% Mixed
4 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
48
29% Positive
2 Reviews
57% Mixed
4 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review

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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.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
63
Stengarde gives an arresting performance as a mentally unstable woman.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
50
A disturbing, somewhat repellent portrait of a depressed middle-class woman's struggle to live comfortably in the world.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
50
Never quite knows where it's going - which is especially frustrating, since it takes such a long and painful path to get there.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
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.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
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.
By Eddie Cockrell FULL REVIEW
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.
By Laura Sinagra FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Nimbus Film, Zentropa Entertainments, Danmarks Radio (DR), Det Danske Filminstitut
Release Date Jan 17, 2003
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Danish Film Awards (Robert)
• 5 Wins & 5 Nominations
Viareggio EuropaCinema
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Bodil Awards
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations

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