A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
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Copenhagen, 1926. Danish artist, Gerda Wegener, painted her own husband, Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne), as a lady in her painting. When the painting gained popularity, Einar started to change his appearance into a female appearance and named himself Lili Elbe. With his feminism passion and Gerda's support, Einar - or Elbe - attempted one of the first male-to-female sex reassignment surgery, a decision that turned into a massive change for their marriage, that Gerda realized her own husband is no longer a man or the person she married before. A childhood friend of Einar, art-dealer Hans Axgil (Matthias Schoenaerts), shows up and starts a complex love triangle with the couple. Written by
Gusde
The film has inspired more research into the period, and brought attention to Elbe and to Gerda Wegener, who will be the subject of a big art exhibition in their native Copenhagen, Denmark. See more »
Goofs
The film begins in 1926, but when Gerda opens the letter from the first doctor that examined Lili, it is dated 12 October 1925. See more »
Quotes
Hans Axgil:
I've only liked a handful of people in my life, and you've been two of them.
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Performed by Marie-Christine Desplat (as Marie-Christine "Kiki" Desplat), Sylvette Claudet, Shona Taylor, Nathalie Renault, Claude Jeantet
Arranged by Marie-Christine Desplat (as Marie-Christine "Kiki" Desplat)
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I will begin by saying that I'm still debating whether I should give this movie 1 star to make up for all those high rated reviews.
As someone else stated in the comments, Eddie's character is so poorly researched, it's almost insulting to the trans community, I may not know a lot about this, but one does not dress in a costume as a favor and then identify themselves as another gender overnight... sure, the story wants to offer more background into this but fails to do to so at a satisfactory level. The main character comes across more likely to suffer from multiple personality disorder than being trans, and considering some less enlightened viewers still confuse sexual identity for pathology, this may be one of the most epic movie fails I have seen in years.
I should also add that the acting feels forced in some scenes, but that's mainly because many of those scenes are cliché so the actors don't have much to work with...... but man, if you've seen 10 movies in the past decade, the not-subtle-at-all foreshadowing will surely let you know how it ends. I had hopes for this, if you want a LGBT movie, see Carol!
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I will begin by saying that I'm still debating whether I should give this movie 1 star to make up for all those high rated reviews.
As someone else stated in the comments, Eddie's character is so poorly researched, it's almost insulting to the trans community, I may not know a lot about this, but one does not dress in a costume as a favor and then identify themselves as another gender overnight... sure, the story wants to offer more background into this but fails to do to so at a satisfactory level. The main character comes across more likely to suffer from multiple personality disorder than being trans, and considering some less enlightened viewers still confuse sexual identity for pathology, this may be one of the most epic movie fails I have seen in years.
I should also add that the acting feels forced in some scenes, but that's mainly because many of those scenes are cliché so the actors don't have much to work with...... but man, if you've seen 10 movies in the past decade, the not-subtle-at-all foreshadowing will surely let you know how it ends. I had hopes for this, if you want a LGBT movie, see Carol!