KIRA'S REASON: A LOVE STORY
aka DOGME #21 - EN KÆRLIGHEDSHISTORIE

Year: 2001
USA: First Run Features
Cast: Stine Stengade, Lars Mikkelsen, Sven Wollter, Camilla Bendix, Ronnie Hiort Lorenzen, Oliver Appelt Nielsen, Lotte Bergstrøm, Nicolas Bro, Jesper Hyldegaard, Bent Kaiser, Peaches Latrice Petersen, Gerard Bidstrup, Thomas W Gabrielsson, Michael Zuckow Mardorf, Klaus Pagh, Claus Strandberg, Henrik Birch
Director: Ole Christian Madsen
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish (English subtitles)
USA: 92 mins
USA Release Date: 17 January 2003 (Limited Release - New York)

Synopsis

Enjoying life in their mid-thirties, Kira (Stine Stengade) and her husband have a large house, a car and two wonderful children. This dream life hits a crisis when Kira develops a psychiatric problem and is hospitalized. She returns home after treatment but life is not the same. Her relationship with her husband and children become strained and difficult. When Kira learns that her husband had an affair while she was in the hospital, she intensifies her efforts to restore her own life. But these efforts are futile as Kira is forced to come to terms with the irreversible changes in her life.