Drawn inexplicably into a double life, as Einar and as his shy, alluring “cousin Lili,” he conceals a dual personality that nearly drives him to suicide. Dressing for a masquerade ball, the delicate placing of his hands and crossing of his legs literally turns him on. Redmayne’s face of the way the fabric feels to his touch is a clue to things to come.Īs Einar, he expresses a sort of unfocused gender identity that makes him neither masculine nor feminine, but when he smiles his eyes light up girlishly, and in Lili’s lingerie he turns downright sensual. Reluctantly, he dons silk stockings and matching pumps, and his embarrassment slowly turns to a confusing confrontation with feelings he’s repressed since childhood. Then everything is altered dramatically the first time he poses as a favor for Gerda while she’s waiting for her model to arrive. It’s 1926 in Copenhagen and Einar is a painter of landscapes on the verge of success, and the passionate and actively heterosexual husband of a beautiful fellow artist named Gerda (Alicia Vikander), who specializes in portraits. Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander and Amber Heard But it’s a sure thing that he’ll be nominated for another Oscar. Redmayne’s most prestigious performance will go down in the archives as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything or as the tortured, androgynous woman trapped in a man’s body in The Danish Girl. It’s anyone’s guess whether the amazing Mr. ![]() With the seemingly limitless talents of Eddie Redmayne as a tender and wrenching centerpiece that cannot be topped, and Tom Hooper ( The King’s Speech) in the director’s seat, this movie has multiple awards stamped all over it. The gorgeous, heartbreaking and unforgettable film The Danish Girl is about the first known case of transgender surgery recorded in medical history-the story of Einar Wegener, the married painter in Denmark who bravely endured a pioneering gender reassignment operation in the 1930s and later became known as Lili Elbe. With serious media attention for hot-button topics like marriage equality, pride marches and the questionable sincerity of Caitlyn Jenner’s overexposed “transgender tipping point” on reality TV, times have certainly changed for the LGBT community-of course, it wasn’t always so.
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