The biggest shock in “Danish Girl” is not that a man in 1930 risked their lives can operate as a wife. The shock comes with the view of the city where it happened. A beautiful town on a beautiful river where obviously beautiful people live, their culture is open and progressive, that such operations are possible there. Not in Paris, not London, but in Dresden!
“Dresden was the epicenter of liberal openness of scientific progress, the open arms,” says “Danish Girl” director Tom Hooper in an interview with Star . Quite apart from what followed after 1933, this view is also in present times because every Monday accosted in Dresden Pegida, shall we say, refreshing. The reminder: Another Dresden is possible. But this digression only in passing, because actually it’s actually in this film about one of the greatest love stories of the world
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in the wrong body
“Danish Girl” tells the story Danish painter Einar Wegener fate of – the really existed. A woman trapped in a man’s body, and Einar is making every effort to get rid of this male body in order to be completely who he is inwardly already: Lili. He is supported almost to the point of self-abandonment of his wife.
Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne, who already in “The Theory of Everything” as Stephen Hawking has shown that he is one of the best actors of our time , playing once more with so much sensitivity and dedication that the audience can empathize very well with Einar / Lili. Is collected in these agonizing dismemberment of the spectators of Einars woman of intrepid, admirable, true love in itself carrying Gerda. Played by Alicia Vikander, Hollywood’s new secret weapon, known from “Ex Machina” and “Codename UNCLE”, Swede and a trained ballet dancer. For a description of the interaction between Redmayne and Vikander would have to re-invent the word “chemistry”. And it all works entirely without kitsch.
A moment of freedom
If the man who has made it possible: Tom Hooper. British director are safe since “The King’s Speech” and “Les Misérables” audience and Academy-heart. For seven years he has been working on the implementation of “Danish Girl”. It was this “extraordinary, beautiful love story” that have kept him at the bar, he says. As Gerda her husband, but she also loses support, without condemning him ever the passion with which it is to him that had been the great inspiration, so Hooper.
Because “Danish Girl” was also a Passion project director. After the great success of “The King’s Speech” and “Les Misérables” has become him aware that he now, for a moment, quite alone could decide what should be his next film, and how he wanted to turn him. “I was free for this universal love story,” says Hooper and smiles. And we smile with him – charmed by Lili and Gerda
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