If you are looking forward to watching 'The Danish Girl', here is what critical eyes saw.
After a doozy version of Les Miserable in 2012, director Tom Hooper has once again collaborated with Eddie Redmayne to bring the story of pioneer transgender figure Lili Elbe to the silver screen.
When the trailer came out, The Danish Girl managed to turn quite a lot of heads. Given the increasing discussion surrounding diversity and representation of characters of various communities on screen, The Danish Girl was supposed to be the darling of arthouse films and gain the love of audience in equal measures.
The screening of the movie at Venice and Toronto Film Festivals resulted in a mixed bag of admiration and mild praise.
Nobody doubts the acting prowess of Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne and many are dubbing Alicia Vikander a frontrunner for next year's nominations. Going through the reviews, the only problem seems to be the slow pace of story and the screenplay's lack of edge.
So if you are looking forward to watching The Danish Girl, just go through what the critical eyes are seeing.
The Hollywood Reporter
"The title seems almost a misnomer in The Danish Girl, director Tom Hooper's thoroughly English bio-drama of groundbreaking transgender figure Lili Elbe and the artist wife who stood by her husband Einar Wegener throughout his long and difficult transition to live as a woman. The correctness and careful sensitivity of the film's approach seem somehow a limitation in an age when countless indie and cable TV projects dealing with thematically related subject matter have led us to expect a little more edge. But if the movie remains safe, there's no questioning its integrity, or the balance of porcelain vulnerability and strength that Eddie Redmayne brings to the lead role." Read more
Entertainment Weekly
"I really liked it. I thought it was beautifully made. It will be talked about. And it will be nominated for a ton of awards like Hooper’s previous film to screen here in Toronto, The King’s Speech. But, in the end, there was a little something missing for me that I’m still trying to put my finger on. Every detail, every costume, every location, every Downton Abbey-ish bit of the score, every scarf-flying-in-the-wind metaphor, and certainly every performance, is note perfect. Yet, there’s something a bit lifeless to all of its perfection. It’s like a movie under glass. It’s beautiful and sensitive and compassionate, and I wish it moved me more." Read more
The Huffington Post
"The superb delicacy and graciousness with which Redmayne depicts Lili makes the role one of the most moving performances of the year, at times more powerful than his depiction of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. In what is sure to be an Oscar-nominated role (one that could make Redmayne a back-to-back winner), he emanates an emotional urgency in Lili with a potent mix of confusion, pain and longing that oozes from his every mannerism. Each lip quiver, each movement of his hand grazing his neck and fingertips softly scaling his collarbone, the slight tilt of his head, carry with them a swell of emotion." Read more
Variety
"Eddie Redmayne makes the ultimate transition, reteaming with Les Miserables director Tom Hooper in this sensitive, high-profile portrait of transgender pioneer Lili Erbe." Read more
The Independent
"You could easily imagine The Danish Girl being made in a far rawer, more stylised and stridently melodramatic way by a film-maker such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He would have egged up scenes like the early one in which we see Einar hiding his penis between his legs, or the later one in which he is assaulted by homophobic thugs. Instead, Hooper aims for subtlety and understatement. Some of its visual gambits – notably the poetic shots of Lili’s scarf floating on the wind – verge on the trite." Read more
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