*** out of ****
Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl is another ambitious
end-of-2015 release that has a redundant amount of beauty and emotion but doesn’t
manage to be as interesting as it could be. The story of the first-known person
to have a sex-change operation provokes endless questions, but sticks to the
simple emotional struggle of the lead character (played by Eddie Redmayne) and
a wife (played by Alicia Vikander) who is uncertain of how to deal with a
husband who is fading away.
Redmayne’s preoccupation with finding challenging roles has
led him to a lot of movies that I didn’t enjoy despite his talents. The Danish
Girl is a good one with a moving score by Alexandre Desplat and Hooper’s
perfectly-composed wide-angle shots (through cinematographer Danny Cohen), but
after watching the entire first season of The Knick, I’ve come to expect more
from period dramas that deal with social changes alongside medical
breakthroughs.
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