Saturday, December 5, 2015

Theater Whore: The Danish Girl


The Danish Girl 8/10

This was the first of two films Cam and I saw during our annual Oscar catch up. She said we were seeing two movies and I had no idea which ones or what they were about. I knew nothing going in and this is fun with her. The Danish Girl stars Eddie Redmayne and Gerda Wegener in this semi-biography about one of the first transgenders ever. Redmayne plays Einar Wegener who is an artist married to another artist Gerda Wegener. He is very successful while she is trying to get a show going but quite cant. One day she has her husband pose because a model she is using is late.


Well, Einar tries on these stockings and shoes and they next thing you know he is wearing his wife's clothes to bed while they are having sex and enjoying dressing like a woman that he calls Lili Elbe. Its cool for his wife at first but then while at a party Lili ends up making out with this random guy. Things get real weird after that. From there on I had this mixture of being happy that Einar could be who he believed he truly was as Lili and feeling terrible for his wife who was watching her husband become another person but trying to be supportive. This was a really good film and not playing in many places at least at the moment. If you get the chance to see this you really should.

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