Sten Kaalø Movies

In this modest black-and-white film, Irene is a housewife who drifts in a sea of vague dissatisfactions. Her family life with her husband and daughter is pleasant, but not stimulating enough. She also has a lover, a young dreamer instead of the man of action she craves. Her husband tolerates her explorations with the lover and even a lesbian affair, but he finally loses his cool when the discarded lover starts hanging around the house, and he locks them both out. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

On a release trip to the capital, jailed 16-year-old juvenile delinquent Lone (Pernille Kløvedal) makes a beeline to Copenhagen's alternative subculture. She meets a charming rogue (Steen Kaalø), gets impregnated, and has an abortion, ultimately leaving the Danish capital as lonely and unfulfilled as she had arrived. Making his debut as a feature-film director and using a cast mainly consisting of amateurs, Franz Ernst created a then-timely assessment of the subculture that begat Copenhagen's famous "freetown" area known as Christiania. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi