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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.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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New York Daily News by 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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Village Voice by 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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Stengarde gives an arresting performance as a mentally unstable woman.
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TV Guide Magazine by 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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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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The New York Times by Stephen Holden
A disturbing, somewhat repellent portrait of a depressed middle-class woman's struggle to live comfortably in the world.