The Danish Girl sees Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne transform as he plays one of the first people to undergo gender reassignment surgery.

The new movie hits theaters on New Year’s Day, but is it worth watching?

Here’s everything you need to know about The Danish Girl (15).


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The Danish Girl is a fictionalized account of Lili Elbe, a pioneer of the transgender movement who was one of the first to undergo gender reassignment surgery.

Born Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne), she gradually realized that she was a woman trapped in a man’s body. But in the 1920s it was unknown and such an operation had never been undertaken before.

Taking the form of the resourceful Lili Elbe with the flaming hair, Einar confronts a deep-seated belief that he was born in the wrong body.

Supported by his artist wife Gerda (Alicia Vikander) and his childhood friend Hans Axgil (Matthias Schoenaerts), Lili turns to the controversial surgeon Warnekros (Sebastian Koch) to correct nature’s mistake.

However, the medical procedure is both experimental and very dangerous, and not only could Gerda lose her husband on the operating table, but also Lili.

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Eddie Redmayne from The Theory of Everything plays Einar Wegener who becomes Lili Elbe, Ex Machina star Alicia Vikander plays his wife Gerda, Matthias Schoenaerts from Rust and Bone plays his childhood friend Hans Axgil, Sebastian Koch from A Good Day to Die Hard plays Warnekros, a surgeon, and Never Back Down’s Amber Heard is Ulla, the ballerina.

Is it worth a watch?

4/5

Director Tom Hooper, who won an Oscar for The King’s Speech, takes a reserved and painfully polite approach to the subject and artfully navigates a maelstrom of conflicting emotions.

Fortunately, his British reserve doesn’t stop us connecting with the characters, aided by tour-de-force performances from Redmayne as Lili and the beaming Vikander as his conflicted wife.

Her commitment to challenging roles, including a deeply moving scene of frontal nudity for Redmayne, elevates Lucinda Coxon’s script and guarantees a flood of saltwater tears from viewers who believe that love transcends all boundaries.

The Danish girl walks a very safe path, but it’s hard to resist the painful emotions that hide under every beautiful, picturesque frame.

Redmayne and Vikander are adorable, conveying their protagonists’ inner anguish with every trembling touch or tearful gaze.

Where can I buy tickets?

Odeon, Cineworld, Vue and Reel theaters are now taking bookings for first Friday screenings.

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