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The Danish Girl
Tom Hooper
(2015)
115min
15 Certificate
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Review
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Damon Wise
The story of how Danish landscape painter Einar Wegener became a woman named Lili Elbe is the focus of this tasteful, no doubt sanitised yet emotionally powerful biopic from Tom Hooper
Les Misérables
. Eddie Redayne gets top billing as Wegener, but the story is more focused on his artist wife, Gerda, played by Alicia Vikander. It begins innocently in 1920s Copenhagen, with Gerda asking her husband to pose in women's stockings to enable her to finish a portrait she is painting. Wegener is intrigued and begins to experiment with cross-dressing, giving his female alter ego a whole new name and identity. Gerda encourages him, and, though the transition is painful for her, the artist becomes inspired, causing a storm in the art world with her paintings of this mysterious muse. But how far is Wegener prepared to go? The facts might be moot, but Vikander is sensational in that rarest of things: a love story about a woman who finds her inner strength while letting go.
Summary
Artist Gerda Wegener unveils a portrait of her husband Einar dressed as a woman in 1920s Copenhagen. Einar realises that the woman in the painting is his true identity, and decides to become one of the first people to undergo sex reassignment surgery. Period drama based on David Ebershoff's novel inspired by the true story of artist Lili Elbe, starring Eddie Redmayne and an Oscar-winning Alicia Vikander.
Cast & Crew
Einar Wegener / Lili Elbe
Eddie Redmayne
Gerda Wegener
Alicia Vikander
Henrik
Ben Whishaw
Warnekros
Sebastian Koch
Ulla
Amber Heard
Hans
Matthias Schoenaerts
Elsa
Emerald Fennell
Niels
Henry Pettigrew
Fonnesbech
Richard Dixon
Dr Hexler
Pip Torrens
Rasmussen
Adrian Schiller
Director
Tom Hooper
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Other Information
Language:
English
Colour
Theatrical distributor:
Universal
Guidance:
Sex scenes.
Available on:
DVD and Blu-ray
Released on:
1 Jan 2016
Drama
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