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Nov 27, 2015 · “The Danish Girl” may seem zeitgeisty through sheer timing—and that may seem cynical on the surface—but it’s clear that its heart is in the right place. But speaking of the heart, “The Danish Girl” is more likely to appeal to the head.
Nov 25, 2015 · By Peter Travers. November 25, 2015. Alicia Vikander and Eddie Redmayne in 'The Danish Girl.' Focus Features/Everett. Caitlyn Jenner is a transgender icon. But nearly a century ago, Danish...
Dec 9, 2015 · Directed by Tom Hooper and starring Eddie Redmayne, the film is about a painter in Copenhagen in the 1920s who starts wearing women’s clothing, and ultimately becomes one the first recipients of a sex change operation.
Movie review of The Danish Girl (2015) by The Critical Movie Critics | A historic love story examination between a transgender pioneer and her wife.
- Tom Hooper
- Aaron Leggo
- Adrian Schiller
The Danish Girl sees Hooper return to the territory of which he is a master; sweeping period drama with fascinating subjects. Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 2, 2021
- Eddie Redmayne offers another biopic and another brilliant performance.
- Verdict
By Josh Lasser
Updated: Nov 24, 2018 7:04 pm
Posted: Nov 25, 2015 7:00 pm
Last year, Eddie Redmayne delivered an Academy Award-winning performance in the Stephen Hawking biopic, The Theory of Everything. There, he offered an outstanding portrayal of Hawking in a solid movie about the scientist. Redmayne may now have done one better with his performance in a film which is otherwise not quite as good.
In Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl we find the actor playing a married, successful, painter and the Danish girl of the title, Lili Elbe, who was born as Einar Wegener. Alicia Vikander is Gerda, Einar's wife. Also a painter, Gerda is a rather less successful one. That difference in professional status, however, doesn't affect their deep love for one another and they live, seemingly happily, in 1920s Copenhagen.
As may be clear from the previous paragraph, that love is going to be tested in The Danish Girl. Lili is coming to grips with the fact that she knows herself to be a woman, not a man.
It is natural to feel trepidation about that which is different, that which is unknown. The important thing is not the feeling, but the reaction to it. That is what Vikander and Redmayne explore here in The Danish Girl – their characters' reactions to something seen at the time as very different. We watch as Lili and Gerda struggle with how to proc...
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With support from his loving wife Gerda (Alicia Vikander), artist Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne) prepares to undergo one of the first sex-change operations.
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