a full coffin show on an airport x ray machine . the historic beauty of prague . a lawyer who offer his service at no cost and no string . the handbag of a wealthy woman and it content throw to a crowd in a market square . when we take element out of context and we could make an infinite number of story out them . tragedy and comedy and romance . when we look at a relationship and we maybe select the detail that fit a particular keyhole view . movie generally simplify even far . to ole christian madsen credit and he at least try to remind u that reality be rarely a simple . christoffer ( mads mikkelsen the bad guy in casino royale ) be take his wife maja to prague . perhaps he hop that a weekend in this romantic city will be good for them and but the underlying purpose be that his father have die there and he need to sign some paper before the body can be bring back to denmark . dry humour be mixed with sadness due to language difficulty . maja ask the hotel for an adaptor plug and they send an iron ( with polite reassurance ) . miscommunication be also reflect in their relationship . they seem to get on well and but then christoffer confronts his wife with evidence of her unfaithfulness and at the same time say he forgive he and want to make their fourteen year marriage work . she doesn not think she be the one that need to be forgive . christoffer father have leave him an audiocassette . they do not have a tape player and have to go to a jazz bar to hear it . nothing be what it seem and and the situation unravels before u in a constantly unpredictable way . prag dissect the pain of separation and not with the shouting and screaming of who afraid of virginia woolf and but with the equally cut knife of toleration and flaw understand . a christoffer come to term with possibility of life without maja and he explore the question of identity and also the sense of know another person . how do you define someone . their job . their like . their relationship ( s ) . be we the result of the thing that have happen to u or the sum of the kindness we show to others . with the analytic attitude typical of his profession a a lawyer and christoffer try to delineate who he be to maja but she would not play the same game at least verbally . fourteen year of feeling be not throw away so easily when there be goodwill present and even in the face of what might be irrevocable breakdown . when christoffer meet his father ex housekeeper and alena and he see some warmth and human goodness uncomplicated by the vagary of language . at one point and we see the two of them in silhouette and feeling beautifully portray and uncoloured by word . with the various language in subtitle and we be privy to more information than any of the character . be always ashamed and never good enough for the world and say alena ( in czech ) . a lesson that danish christoffer can not fathom . with the czech lawyer ( tidy up dad affair for nothing ) and there be some stumble conversation they have enough word between them for halt conversation . life be hard and he tell christoffer . you bend it or you break . prag have a more european feel than much of danish cinema . it linger on detail and encourage the viewer to consider subtlety . intellectually and it touch on area of breakdown in communication a do the more ambitious babel and but it do so with a gentle warmth and hope in the face of adversity . for all it sadness of theme and prag be a strangely beautiful and move film .