Waiting
to discover this year’s winners in a few days, I’ve been watching a few of the nominated films. What about discussing one of them a day till the Oscars Show on Saturday Night? Here's the first one.
The Danish Girl
Synopsis
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 (from imdb)