Christian Madsen (Denmark)
There isn't a false note struck in this powerful second feature from Madsen (Pizza King). Emotionally fragile, 30-something Kira returns from a stay in a psychiatric clinic to her loving if unfaithful architect husband Mads, their two young children and their comfortable suburban home. The film precisely and painfully charts her attempts to resume a life of normalcy. But whatever it was that occasioned her hospitalization continues to plague her. She runs away, throws a fit in a public swimming pool, has a one-night stand with a stranger picked up in bar. Looking like the young Jacqueline Kennedy, Stine Stengade is mesmerizing as Kira, a women with a secret she can't seem to confront and a husband complicit in her denial. The revelation, when it comes, is not a stunning surprise, but it doesn't matter: Madsen's fidelity to human truth is unqualified and the performances are simply luminescent. - M.P.

(Sept. 9, 9:45 p.m. Varsity 2; Sept. 9, 9:45 p.m. Varsity 3; Sept. 11, 9 a.m. Uptown 3)