Danish Girl

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

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

« 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. »

« 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. »

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

« 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. »

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

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

« 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. »

« 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. »

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

« 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. »