The Danish Girl
Written by Lucinda Coxon (from the novel by David Ebershoff)
Directed by Tom Hooper
UK/Germany/USA, 2015
It’s always puzzling whenever an emotionally-charged subject yields such a cold film. Tom Hooper’s painfully-subdued drama, The Danish Girl, has much truth to speak about the agony of gender identity confusion. He also gets one of the year’s best performances from the emerging star, Alicia Vikander. Sadly, Hooper unsuccessfully straddles the line between love story and psycho-sexual commentary, resulting in a disjointed film that feels like a collection of dramatic vignettes rather than a unified statement.
Since he was a little boy, Danish painter Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne) knew there was something wrong about his gender; an inescapable yearning for something that was missing. He learned to conceal these feelings shortly after his father caught him kissing his childhood friend, Hans (Matthias Schoenaerts). Einar channeled this forbidden passion into the canvas,...
Written by Lucinda Coxon (from the novel by David Ebershoff)
Directed by Tom Hooper
UK/Germany/USA, 2015
It’s always puzzling whenever an emotionally-charged subject yields such a cold film. Tom Hooper’s painfully-subdued drama, The Danish Girl, has much truth to speak about the agony of gender identity confusion. He also gets one of the year’s best performances from the emerging star, Alicia Vikander. Sadly, Hooper unsuccessfully straddles the line between love story and psycho-sexual commentary, resulting in a disjointed film that feels like a collection of dramatic vignettes rather than a unified statement.
Since he was a little boy, Danish painter Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne) knew there was something wrong about his gender; an inescapable yearning for something that was missing. He learned to conceal these feelings shortly after his father caught him kissing his childhood friend, Hans (Matthias Schoenaerts). Einar channeled this forbidden passion into the canvas,...
- 12/18/2015
- by J.R. Kinnard
- SoundOnSight
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