The Danish Girl
Inspired by the lives of Danish couple Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Gerda asks her husband to fill in for a life model for her portrait of a dancer, and since then they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
3 June 1994, UK
31 May 1962, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
6 January 1982, London, England, UK
1 October 1985, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
March1959, Manchester, England, UK
1963, Hong Kong
8 December 1977, Antwerp, Belgium
18 March 1988, Bergsjö, Sweden
30 November 1949, England, UK
10 May 1969, Woking, Surrey, England, UK
August 16, 2016
A story of self-acceptance and discovery that transcends its historical inaccuracies and allows it to ascend to a level of magnetic emotional resonance.
December 17, 2015
"The Danish Girl" is beautifully shot and tastefully made and acted, but only Vikander seems willing to take chances. Happily, she does.
December 11, 2015
A sweet and inoffensive drama located in a pretty art deco past that makes the experience of transgender people palatable to a mainstream audience.
August 04, 2016
[Redmayne] emanates an emotional urgency in Lili with a potent mix of confusion, pain and longing that oozes from his every mannerism.
February 24, 2017
Although marketed as a supposedly progressive film about an important topic, it is, at times, almost unforgivably inaccurate. In addition to this, it is easily one of the most excruciatingly dull films I have seen all year.
December 17, 2015
Only Vikander's performance elevates it above its pretty surface. Her Gerda tells us a story of a woman desperately in love with a man who's vanished, but whose eyes still gaze at her.
December 17, 2015
It is well honed, engaging and accessible, stocked with handsome period piece images of life a century ago, unfailingly mature. And a bit wearisome.
September 08, 2016
Although handsomely made and admirably performed, The Danish Girl doesn't quite become the emotionally powerfully and socially important picture it clearly hoped to be.
December 11, 2015
Eventually, [Hooper] surrenders to the visual and psychological displays attendant on Redmayne's prolonged transformation from Einar to Lili.
July 25, 2016
Vikander's performance in the role is both flawless and inspirational. Just give her the Oscar now.
December 17, 2015
Only when the camera is on Vikander does the film transcend its artifice. In one of the year's best performances, she imbues Gerda with such poignancy and grace that Redmayne all but fades into the background.
