The Danish Girl (2015) (original) (raw)

Inspired by the true story of Danish artists Lili Elbe and her wife Gerda, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: What do you do when someone you love wants to change?

Inspired by the true story of Danish artists Lili Elbe and her wife Gerda, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: What do you do when someone you love wants to change? (less)

Director: Tom Hooper
Writers: Lucinda Coxon, David Ebershoff
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Ben Whishaw, Sebastian Koch, Amber Heard, Matthias Schoenaerts
Producers: Gail Mutrux, Anne Harrison, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Tom Hooper, Linda Reisman

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Academy Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Alicia Vikander	2015
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Academy Awards	Best Actor	Eddie Redmayne	2015

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Review by Brian Orndorf, December 10, 2015

5 / 10

Three years ago, director Tom Hooper tried to wrap his arms around the world with his ambitious adaptation of the hit musical, �Les Miserables.� With �The Danish Girl,� Hooper takes a break from bigness to inspect the life and times of Einar Wegener, who eventually transformed into Lili Elbe, becoming one the first recipients of sex reassignment surgery in the 1920s. It�s an intimate story that demands careful handling, and perhaps Hooper is too respectful of the conflict at hand, as his approach to �The Danish Girl� is to treat the effort as a museum piece, draining the tale of life as the pi ...read more...

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