The high cost of an early transition
2016; Elsevier BV; Volume: 387; Issue: 10015 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0140-6736(16)00050-7
ISSN1474-547X
Autores ResumoGo see The Danish Girl for its artful portrayal of a complex love story. And go, too, for Eddie Redmayne's sensitive performance of both a man, Einar Wegener, in anguish over his gender, and the woman, Lili Elbe, who emerges from him into vivid life. Tom Hooper's beautiful film, based on David Ebershoff's novel which drew on the actual diaries of Lili Elbe, published in the 1930s as Man Into Woman, stays appropriately vague about the medical aspects of Lili's gender transition. Given the terrible limitations of this early medical work, this is both a wise artistic choice and a prudent political one. For the real power of this story is surely the portrait of transgender artist Lili Elbe and the loving marriage she shares, and then must end, with her wife, the Danish artist Gerda Wegener, played with passion and great credibility by Alicia Vikander. The film powerfully depicts the private struggles in this marriage and the painful negotiations of gender transition in the public spheres of life.
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