You only need to watch 45 seconds of “The Danish Girl”; trailer before realizing that cinematic dreamteam Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hooper will undoubtedly be headed to the Academy Awards again to defend their titles of Best Actor and Best Director respectively.
The film, beautifully shot by Hooper, is based on the book by David Ebershoff, which was inspired by the remarkable love story of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener.
“Ex Machina”; actress Alicia Vikander plays illustrator and artist Gerda Wegener who one day solicits her husband, fellow artist Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne) to stand in for a female model. As Gerda’s portraits gain in popularity, so does Einar’s realization that “something’s changed”; as Redmayne so poignantly puts it in the trailer, that he is in fact transgender.
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A night where Gerda dresses Einar up as the subject of her paintings results in a proposition from another man, Gerda realizes her relationship has changed and that Einar is no longer the person she married. Through the remarkable and dangerous transition from Einar to Lili, the love between the couple grows even as Lili’s journey take them into uncharted territory. With his wife’s support Wegener becomes the first known recipient of male-to-female reassignment surgery.
“The Danish Girl”; will make its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, with a special presentation coming to TIFF this year. Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw and Mathias Schoenaerts round out the cast.
Watch the trailer below.
