Venice Review: Eddie Redmayne Transforms Superbly in 'The Danish Girl'

Based on the experience of transgender pioneer Lili Elbe in the 1920s, "The Danish Girl" also features another superb, transformative performance by Eddie Redmayne, who is fast becoming the Daniel Day Lewis of his generation. In 1926, Einar and Gerde Wegener (Redmayne and Alicia Vikander) are married artists, Einar renowned as a landscape painter and Gerde struggling to make her name as a portraitist. They are a young, attractive, very happy couple, mutually supportive of each others' work, so much so that when Gerde's female model doesn't show up one day, her husband agrees to wear tights and ballet shoes so that she can complete her painting. They laugh, she paints....

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