Kira's Reason: A Love Story (2003)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:12
Rotten:6
Average Rating:5.7/10
Theatrical Release:Jan 17, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: From the screenwriter of THE CELEBRATION comes KIRA'S REASON: A LOVE STORY, a Danish Dogme film directed by Ole Christian Madsen. A recovering mental patient, Kira (Stine Stengade) returns home to... [More]
Starring: Stine Stengade, Lars Mikkelsen, Sven Wollter, Camilla Bendix
Director: Ole Christian Madsen
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Reviews for Kira's Reason: A Love Story
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An incredibly touching ride along the jilting, jarring ups-and-downs of a deeply, madly loving relationship, where two people never quit trying, and failing, together. Full Review |
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[S]tunning... a sometimes painfully intimate peek at a crumbling marriage... Full Review |
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2.75/5 |
As [Kira's] actions become more impulsive and her marriage unravels, the film is engagingly unpredictable. Full Review |
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78/100 |
Its pat finale ill-befits a film that otherwise strives successfully for stark emotional realism. Full Review |
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A- |
...Stengade’s portrayal of a mad housewife is alternately arresting and repelling, the kind of work for which they ought to hand out statues. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
Had the film's center been the husband, it would have been more intriguing. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Stengade, in her first leading role, is at once vulnerable and frighteningly manic. Full Review |
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While Madsen and his Dogme 95 colleagues seek to overcome Hollywood’s influence, Kira's Reason is an indication that they are a product of the same patriarchy. Full Review |
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B- |
This Danish import provides a showcase for the lead actors, especially wide-eyed Stengade, who manages sensuality amid all the emotional volatility. Full Review |
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Steeped in a chaotic intensity that characterizes a fractured, disoriented mind. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Stengarde gives an arresting performance as a mentally unstable woman. Full Review |
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The film never particularly achieves any depth or resonance and ultimately comes across as a series of wacky, albeit rather disturbing episodes. Full Review |
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7/10 |
The most colorful Dogme film, and the best to portray beauty, albeit damaged beauty. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
[Allows] the actors to inhabit characters who are painfully contradictory, frustrating, flawed, vulnerable and bound to each other. Full Review |
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Despite Kira's Reason's chamber-drama focus, it never achieves [Madsen's] first film's intimacy. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
In Stine Stengade's intensely engaging performance, Kira is always one step away from the abyss, although, without apparent effort, she manages to hang on. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Easily one of the most affecting films of the year. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Tying up the psychological loose ends of a movie that promised so much more, the trite ending subscribes to the bogus therapeutic notion that one good cry and a confession of vulnerability can wipe away a lifetime of repression. Full Review |
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