Review of The Danish Girl (2015) by Anna N — 29 Dec 2015

Can Eddie Redmayne act? Is the Pope Catholic? Backed by a great cast and great photography, this film will cart Oscars home by the wheel barrow-ful.

Redmayne and Vikander get across the intensity of emotions and feelings, the magnitude of confusion and helplessness, and along the way, the strength, the resolve, and the love of the characters in dealing with their lot. The film may have been set in the 20s, but the situation and human interaction in it cannot be more contemporary.

Some will no doubt compare Redmayne's role to whites playing African Americans in black face, that the role should have gone to a transgender person. IMO, if that happened, it would have been a bigger slap in the face of the transgender population, because I can't think of a transgender actor, indeed an actor of any gender, who could have done as superb a job.