Focus features has announced that the distribution company will livestream a film exclusively on its facebook page every monday in april for free. The danish girl takes place in 1920s copenhagen and stars eddie redmayne as lili elbe, one of the first known recipients of gender reassignment surgery. The danish girl movie official website buy now focus. The name lili was suggested by a friend, actress anna larssen. Harrison productions, mmc independent, pretty pictures, senator film produktion et working title films. The danish girl 2015 is a fictitious story adapted from david ebershoffs book of the same name, which is loosely inspired by reallife danish artists and couple einar wegenerlili elbe eddie redmayne and gerda gottlieb alicia vikander.
The danish girl kindle edition by ebershoff, david. The remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists lili elbe and gerda wegener portrayed by academy award winner eddie redmayne the theory of. The danish girl succeeds at being a wellmade bio pic with a heart, but its hard to shake the feeling that lili is more a vessel used to display the first transgender rather than a fully fleshed. Danish artist, gerda wegener, painted her own husband, einar wegener eddie redmayne, as a. This is why we get her point of view in alternating chapters. According to the danish girl true story, einar wegener met fellow artist gerda gottlieb when they both were attending the royal danish academy of fine arts in copenhagen.
The danish girl quotes by david ebershoff goodreads. By contrast, the danish girl is a focus features production starring the. Premiere of focus features the danish girl arrivals. The danish girl vs the true story of lili elbe, gerda wegener. Focus features proudly presents eddie redmayne and alicia vikander in tom hoopers the danish girl. See academy award winner eddie redmayne and alicia vikander in the danish girl. The danish girl movie official website buy now focus features. His book is based on the reallife story of einar wegener, a danish. In 2008, she told him there was one great unmade script, written by. Celebrities attend premiere of focus features the danish girl at westwood village theatrefeaturing. Tom hooper became aware of the danish girl through his casting director nina gold. The danish girl, tom hoopers portrait of jazz age painters gerda wegener and her spouse, einar, who butterflied into lili elbe via the first sexualassignment surgery, is about gender and it isnt. In researching the danish girl true story, we learned that einar even chose the date that he would kill himself, may 1, 1930 einars desire to commit suicide is only briefly hinted at in the movie. The danish girl is a delicate, elegant novel about the search for ones true self when ones body, as an external encasement, doesnt mirror what is on the inside.
Tom hooper interview about the danish girl popsugar. Eddie redmayne as lili elbe and alicia vikander as gerda wegener in the danish girl. Later in her life, lili chose the surname elbe, inspired by the elbe river in dresden. The danish girl official trailer 2 in theaters november 27 by focus features. The film fashions itself as a love story between einarlili and gerda, who together must confront and. An elegant drama, the danish girl still challenges kunc. About the film the danish girl movie synopsis focus features the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists lili elbe and gerda wegener portrayed by academy award winner eddie redmayne the theory of everything and alicia vikander ex machina, directed by academy award winner tom hooper the kings speech, les mis e rables. The reader eddie redmayne as lili elbe in the new film the danish girl. Lili and gerdas marriage and work evolve as they navigate lilis groundbreaking journey.
I think people who didnt read the book might be surprised at how much you focus on their marriage. They dated for a few years and married in 1904 when einar was 22 and gerda was 19. Elbe was born einar magnus andreas wegener, and was a successful painter under that name after successfully transitioning in 1930, she changed her legal name to lili ilse elvenes and stopped painting altogether. Eddie redmayne, left, as transgender woman lili eble, and alicia vikander in the danish girl, an anguished love story. The danish girl movie official website focus features. Focus features has released the danish girl trailer featuring eddie redmayne and alicia vikander. Alicia vikander talks about playing artist gerda wegener, wife of eddie redmaynes transgender character, lili elbe in the danish girl. Before we get into this book, wed like to pause to make sure were all on the same page. But the book begins and ends with einar and lili, making greta the filling in this sandwichor danish, if. The danish girl, starring eddie redmayne and alicia. The danish girl, about a transgender pioneer the new. The first 20 minutes of the danish girl are a breezy romance between two. Rising landscape artist einar wegener eddie redmayne is married to gerda wegener alicia vikander, a fellow painter specializing in portraits. Focus features the danish girl exposes remarkable true.
The danish girl, from book to the big screen david ebershoff on writing his debut novel, the danish girl, which has been adapted into a major motion picture starring eddie redmayne from. The movie is based on the novel the danish girl by david ebershoff, which is a fictionalized account of the life of einar wegenerlili elbe, not an actual biography like some people think. The danish girl quotes showing 112 of 12 einar felt lonely, and he wondered if anybody in the world would ever know him. Eddie redmayne simplifies womanhood in the danish girl. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. On 4 march 2015, focus features set the film for a limited release on 27 november 2015. The novel is a fictionalized account of the life of lili elbe, one of the first people to undergo sex reassignment surgery. Focus features but its also hard not to wish that the danish girl were a better movie, a more daring and emotionally open exploration of lilis emergence. It is also about what makes a marriage and how far a woman will go to let her husband find his true self, knowing that she will likely lose him in the process. Lili elbeeinar wegener in this historic tale of courage and love. The remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists lili elbe and gerda wegener portrayed by academy award winner eddie redmayne. The danish girl is a 2015 biographical romantic drama film directed by tom hooper, based on the 2000 novel of the same name by david ebershoff.
Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. At 15, he made his screen debut in the academy awardnominated feature daens, directed by stijn coninx. Eddie redmayne as einar wegener, in tom hoopers the danish girl. Moonrise kingdom, lost in translation, dallas buyers club. He becomes a she, and she lili elbe is at the center of tom hoopers truelife, transgender romantic tragedy. In 2015, the danish girl showed us what love and compassion look like. The danish girl movie clip at the ball 2015 eddie redmayne, alicia vikander drama hd by movieclips coming soon.
Einar wegener played by eddie redmayne and his wife gerda alicia vikander are a. David ebershoffs novel of the same name, based on the danish. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Based on the book by david ebershoff, the danish girl is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of lili elbe and gerda wegener, portrayed by academy. One of these people, einar wegener, a landscape painter of some renown, trades his suit for a frock. More on the story in the danish girl copenhagen, early 1920s.
A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of danish artists lili elbe and gerda wegener. When the danish girl first introduces redmaynes character, he is dapperly costumed as a danish gentleman, making eyes across a. The remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists lili elbe and gerda wegener portrayed by academy award winner eddie redmayne the theory of ever. Focus features the danish girl, which depicts the love story inspired by the lives of lili elbe and gerda wegener, will play at 7pm and 7.
Stewart teamed up with british artist susannah brough and they eventually settled on roughly 70 artworks to recreate for the film. Spotlight and the danish girl to open 38th mill valley. The author changed so many elements of einar wegeners story that the characters in the book are entirely fictional, no other character in the novel has any relation to an actual person, living or dead. This was after approximately two decades of believing that he was a woman trapped in a mans body, a feeling that grew stronger as the years passed. Alicia vikander and eddie redmayne in the danish girl. She introduced the couple to the more exotic side of danish society. Eddie redmayne, alicia vikander, amber heard, tusse silberg, adrian schiller, tom hooper, tom hooper, anne harrison, gail mutrux, tim. Matthias schoenaerts is a flemish actor who began his career on stage as a child playing opposite his father julien schoenaerts in the little prince. Bringing moviegoers original stories from the worlds most innovative filmmakers. The danish girl is a 2015 biographical romantic drama film directed by tom hooper, based on the 2000 novel of the same name by david ebershoff, and loosely inspired by the lives of danish painters lili elbe and gerda wegener.
Curtesy of focus features eddie redmayne as lili elbe in the danish girl. Matthias schoenaerts as roman coleman focus features. Lili and gerdas marriage and work evolve as they navigate lilis groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer. After graduating from the royal academy of dramatic arts in antwerp, he starred on stage and in awardwinning shorts and features. As a rule, the respectful way to discuss transgender people is by using the name and pronoun they specifically identify with.