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The tired clash between duty and desire is given fresh strength in Danish director Per Fly’s honest and unsentimental drama. After the suicide of his father, Christoffer (Ulrich Thomsen, star of Thomas Vinterberg’s The Celebration), who looks like a graver blend of Sting and Woody Harrelson, is persuaded by his mother (a regal Ghita Nørby) to abandon his life as a successful, satisfied restaurant owner in Stockholm and come back home to Copenhagen to take over the ailing industrial mini-metropolis that was his father’s steel mill, much to the dismay of his lovely, loving wife, Maria (Lisa Werlinder), an aspiring Stockholm stage actress. Christoffer makes a reluctant return, and his descent begins as executive life transforms him into an icy shell and his family and his marriage crumble around him. Fly paints a portrait, in muted loden and cranberry and cream, of a man who looks the corporate gorgon in the face and turns slowly to stone. The film, which won six Danish Academy Awards, is the second in Fly’s planned trilogy depicting the three layers of Danish life; The Bench (2000) dealt with the underclass, and here we see the old-money elite. But shots of the mill workers, with their broad, strong Nordic visages, prove some of the most stirring. In Danish, Swedish, French, and Norwegian with English subtitles. (115 minutes)