The BFS16 #12: My new girl crush
Title: The Danish Girl
Year: 2015
Director: Tom Hooper
Other: M/14, 119 min, Drama/ Biography/ Romance
Rating: IMDB: 7,0; Rotten Tomatoes: 70%
Everything is Alicia Vikander and everything hurts...
The Danish Girl is a last year's must watch.
The justified fuss around Eddie Redmayne's casting for the part of a transgender woman and, specifically, as THIS transgendered woman made me a little apprehensive, even though I've been following his work since Pillars of the World (totally recommended, btw) and I know what he his capable of (for more details, please watch his performance in Jupiter Ascending. It's just so funnily good!). And in fact, and though I really wanted him to outdid himself, truth must be told, in this work he just doesn't shine. Here, it's Alicias Vikander's character who steals the show, the one person we want to know more about, the character we get more invested in. We, as her, are the outsiders in, the ones watching all the painfull process of dealing with who you really are inside, the ones who don't understand because we don't know, we are not capable of understanding, we are not yet aware of what being a transgender really means and how people deal with it on a daily basis, even with all these years that set us and Gerda apart. We, as her, support and suffer. And in all this painting Redmayne ends up fading slightly into the background.
2015 was Vikander's year.
