The Danish Girl (2015)
Country: GB/US/GER/BEL/DK
Technical: col 119m
Director: Tom Hooper
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw, Sebastian Koch, Matthias Schoenaerts
Synopsis:
In 1920s Europe, a Danish painter experiences a delayed sexual awakening and decides he is really a woman on the inside. His wife and fellow artist long-sufferingly secures him the help he needs, even though it means losing him.
Review:
Based on the memoirs of a pioneering transgender case, this sensitively wrought drama no doubt unwittingly fashions itself as a vehicle for Oscar recognition, with its transformative central role. But to a heterosexual viewer it is the wife's story that is the more affecting, and Vikander's performance that is the more impressive. The locations, props and canvases are all exquisitely curated, while the film also moves at a museum-like pace, losing momentum in its latter stages. However, as a case study that captures the humanity of what might be considered freakish curiosities at the time, it is an admirable achievement in all departments, marred only by the hagiographic postscript.
Country: GB/US/GER/BEL/DK
Technical: col 119m
Director: Tom Hooper
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw, Sebastian Koch, Matthias Schoenaerts
Synopsis:
In 1920s Europe, a Danish painter experiences a delayed sexual awakening and decides he is really a woman on the inside. His wife and fellow artist long-sufferingly secures him the help he needs, even though it means losing him.
Review:
Based on the memoirs of a pioneering transgender case, this sensitively wrought drama no doubt unwittingly fashions itself as a vehicle for Oscar recognition, with its transformative central role. But to a heterosexual viewer it is the wife's story that is the more affecting, and Vikander's performance that is the more impressive. The locations, props and canvases are all exquisitely curated, while the film also moves at a museum-like pace, losing momentum in its latter stages. However, as a case study that captures the humanity of what might be considered freakish curiosities at the time, it is an admirable achievement in all departments, marred only by the hagiographic postscript.
Country: GB/US/GER/BEL/DK
Technical: col 119m
Director: Tom Hooper
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw, Sebastian Koch, Matthias Schoenaerts
Synopsis:
In 1920s Europe, a Danish painter experiences a delayed sexual awakening and decides he is really a woman on the inside. His wife and fellow artist long-sufferingly secures him the help he needs, even though it means losing him.
Review:
Based on the memoirs of a pioneering transgender case, this sensitively wrought drama no doubt unwittingly fashions itself as a vehicle for Oscar recognition, with its transformative central role. But to a heterosexual viewer it is the wife's story that is the more affecting, and Vikander's performance that is the more impressive. The locations, props and canvases are all exquisitely curated, while the film also moves at a museum-like pace, losing momentum in its latter stages. However, as a case study that captures the humanity of what might be considered freakish curiosities at the time, it is an admirable achievement in all departments, marred only by the hagiographic postscript.