The Danish Girl

Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts(Hans),Ben Whishaw(Henrik) and Sebastian Koch(Dr. Warnekros)
Director: Tom Hooper
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance



A compelling piece of art. Simply amazing!



You may look forward to:

• Eddie Redmayne is a character artist, a method actor. Any role that he plays, it just gets into his skin. With his body language and attitude, he is so very convincing as 'Lily' that you almost doubt the person in real.This character although is a role which has a gray shade to it, 'Lily' is at times so selfish that she never feels the pain of her wife. But at the same time Lily portrays the human emotions so beautifully and so brave, that it astonishes the audience
• Alicia Vikander on the other end, is no less a performer. This Biography is not complete without her sacrifice. Her role depicts the emotional strength of a woman as much as the weakness, to take it all and yet never able to let go. Her love for 'Lily' is truly unbiased and unconditional. And  Alicia Vikander does true justice to this film
• Matthias Schoenaerts and Ben Whishaw, are in short supporting roles. But they share an amazing chemistry with the two leads of the film respectively
• Sebastian Koch has a very important role in History as the first ever doctor performing sexual transformation surgery in a transgender, although not as significant a role from the film's perspective

What you can sleep over:

Even though they say this is a script loosely based on the true story, you can very well ignore the part which says 'loosely' :)

The dampeners you should be aware of:

I wont say a dampener for the film, but yes certain aspects an audience should be aware of will count; the nudity aspect in the film which renders it strictly to adult audience. As well the slow pace of the film.
This movie is a piece of art, it has no pointer anywhere to vulgarity and hence i believe even the Indian Censor Board did not edit most of any nudity from the film!




My Rating: 4/5

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