Jonathon Wardman

The Danish Girl (2015)

Comments

While Redmayne may be the one picking up the awards nods for this film, it's Alicia Vikander who really shines in this biographical drama. Vikander's character, Gerda Wegener, displays a whole range of emotion as she is pulled from rejection to despair, from joy to fear. While ultimately the tragic ending does display, once again, Redmayne's ability to play illness and dying, it's Vikander's performance which holds the story together and shows, crucially, how Einar's transformation into Lili had not only an impact on his own life, but those of a great number of people around him.

Viewed at 5:40 pm on Thursday 7th January, 2016 at Cineworld Aldershot.

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Tagline

Find the courage to be yourself.

Overview

The story of Danish painter Einar Wegener, one of the first recipients of gender reassignment surgery.

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