Danish Girl

Or, au-delà de ses parti pris et de plans d'une beauté fulgurante, The Danish GirlL demeure en surface et siffle un refrain monotone. 

Du côté de l'interprétation, celle de Redmayne (chez qui on remarque les tics d'expression) manque de nuance et n'est pas avantagée par la rapidité de son changement. Par contre, Vikander sauve à elle seule le film du naufrage en proposant une interprétation sensible et humaine.

Les prestations d'Eddie Redmayne et d'Alicia Vikander commandent le respect.

On peut ainsi affirmer que The Danish Girl est un «beau» film. Mais il n'est guère vibrant.

Eddie Redmayne goes deep in this biopic on the Danish painter who became a transgender activist.

The correctness and careful sensitivity of the film's approach seem somehow a limitation in an age when countless indie and cable TV projects dealing with thematically related subject matter have led us to expect a little more edge.

The kindest thing to be said about the high-toned transgender weeper The Danish Girl is that by the time it ends it can serve as a decent liberal corrective to a century of reactionary demon-possession movies.

The trans community gets a lush and slightly stiff prestige movie to call its own, buoyed by Redmayne and Alicia Vikander‘s powerful performances.

Can it offer a transporting experience without changing you one bit? Such is the conundrum with The Danish Girl.

Even with the handicap of acting behind the polite remove of Hooper’s film, Vikander and Redmayne are two stars whose glow can’t be dimmed.

The Danish Girl is out at exactly the right time, but it's not quite as good as people will likely be saying in the next few months.

Eddie Redmayne makes the ultimate transition, reteaming with 'Les Miserables' director Tom Hooper in this sensitive, high-profile portrait of transgender pioneer Lili Erbe.

Plays like an historical account of a groundbreaking life, rather than an intimate, emotionally charged and passionate exercise. First-rate performances by Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, though.