“The Danish Girl” at the Venice Film Festival: Lili, Einar and I – Tagesspiegel

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Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne thrilled at Filmfest Venice as “The Danish Girl”: He plays Lili Elbe, one of the first transgender women who underwent an operation.

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Press Conferences are Reality Checks. And sometimes reality shock. The screen idol appears in a different light, one has it only in person in mind. On the jaw rotten Johnny Depp on Friday initially followed Saturday’s 72nd Venice Film Festival Juliette Binoche, the -Überraschung! – Significantly younger and smaller than looks in the first Italian film in competition at the Lido, “L’attesa”, in which she plays a grieving mother. She says, “Actors work a lot with memory.” That’s what the act of playing with the grieve together, it is also called “magical thinking”.

The conference hall on the second floor of the casino is already overcrowded. The journalists did not come because Binoche, but for Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne, which is expected next on the podium. Shortly before the question-answer game begins to “The Danish Girl”, the hitherto most spectacular Lion contenders, two tall Americans push themselves to my annoyance in the row in front of me. Almost blocked my broad, strong women shoulder under lush Hair to look at Redmayne

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Eddie Redmayne as Lili is a sensation

The 32-year-old British actor, who in February for his role as Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything” won an Oscar, plays Lili Elbe, a woman who was born in 1882 in a man’s body. The estimated in Copenhagen Danish painter Einar Wegener landscape was married to the later acclaimed for their erotic portraits artist Gerda Wegener and discovered with the help of his wife his true, female I in itself, just Lili. 1930/31 Lili underwent several operations sex, the last they did not survive

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Eddie Redmayne as Lili is a sensation on the canvas. As Einar first sitting as a substitute for a dancer as a woman for Gerda model as he dons nylons, foot abspreizt with the dance shoe and thereby transformed into a woman. Scheu, uncertain at first, gestures and poses tasted our, the body language of women studying, just across the street, in brothels, in front of the mirror, a pubescent teen. Then more and more openly, more courageous than the couple went to Paris, where Gerda spends her companion as Einars cousin. Where has this Lili merely their adorable high cheekbones ago, the delicate hands, gracefully inclined head posture ?, you wonder. And realize at some point that Redmayne while promoting the art of acting to light: He imitates another person, another gear, a different attitude in order to be immediately, as part of his own inner self

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Redmayne will appear on the podium in Venice just like Binoche initially smaller and younger than in the film. A well-mannered high school graduate, with proper Shorthair and burgundy sweater, from the peeps a light blue shirt collar. But he needs to gesticulate with his fine, long-limbed hands to tilt your head in the direction of each questioning journalist to auszuschenken with elegant forearm swing a glass of water or with his headphones to pluck at the same time the collar right again, and already she is back because:. the grace of Lili, her fragile deep voice, her resistance, her courage

Director Tom Hooper sees Lili Elbe as a pioneer

Lili Elbe was one of the first person worldwide, which – among other things in Dresden – let umoperieren from biological male to female. The gender debate still lay in the distant future, even the free spirits of the twenties held transgender people to be homosexual – for ill, but curable. In Venice break Redmayne and director Tom Hooper cudgels for Lili as a pioneer, for the diversity of gender. “The worst enemy of transgender men and women is the talk of the dualism,” says Hooper, of “The King’s Speech” for the second time a Transition brings to the canvas after the Oscar-winning, the overcoming a physical blockage. And Redmayne is not tired to appreciate the generosity of the transgender community. “They were all incredibly warm and open, have enabled me to a great education and taught me that sexuality and gender are two different things,” says Redmayne.

dozens trans people playing in the movie

Many advised him, even older trans people who were socially hostility even more than today. Dozens play in the movie with. As Redmayne specifically a pair in San Francisco mentioned that allowed him to make every possible question, the American attacks against me by the hand of his tall wife. They are well, which Redmayne so special thanks.

In the film Gerda remains until the end of Lili’s side. In real life they divorced, Gerda went to Morocco, had lesbian relationships. The movie saves from, presses instead of the lacrimal gland and dipped the tragedy into gentle light elegant Art Nouveau decor. A complex story about a complex subject would be overwhelmed a wide audience with it? Or is simplifying the privilege of fiction: Why no love story, not a mainstream melodrama for a courageous woman of the 20th century? Best Actor Award of the Mostra would Redmayne all deserve. What the jury presents a dilemma: They can do it only for the best male or distinguish the best female role.

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