A painful, well-acted if sometimes unrewarding Dogme movie, shot on digital video, from the Danish director Susanne Bier, whose local box-office hit Den Eneste Ene was unhappily remade as the British comedy The One and Only.

Joachim (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) is paralysed after a car accident and his fiancee Cecilie (Sonja Richter) then begins a passionate affair with Niels (Mads Mikkelsen), the doctor looking after Joachim - and his wife Marie (Paprika Steen) was driving the car which hit him.

The inevitable comparison is with Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves, but this actually looks very different from the bizarre, semi-serious setting of that film.

A very human and believable story is played out, often to excruciating effect. The double irony is contrived, and there is something coercive about the agony involved, but there's no doubting the value of the performances.