Inaccurate and unnecessarily sad

Rating: 1/10 (29 November 2017)

Having already known the story of Gerda Wegener and Lili Elbe, I went into this movie expecting an uplifting story about Gerda and her wife, who she loved, Lili. I expected some dramatic moments, some tragedies, but perhaps they would even end on a high note, as Lili's surgeries were successful up until her attempted uterine transplant, something that still has not been successfully completed in a transgender woman. Instead, I got a movie where Lili is never allowed to really live her life. I got a movie with two ham-fisted heterosexual romance plots. I got a movie that, in the end, seems to punish it's transgender lead for the crime of being herself.
This movie shows Gerda as being anywhere from skeptical to downright negative towards Lili's transition, when accounts say that Gerda was very supportive of Lili, and remained attracted to her after she began living as a woman. Lili was even portrayed as "being Lili" whenever she showed attraction to a man, but "being Einar" when attracted to Gerda. What?? Presenting as a woman does not suddenly mean Lili has to be straight.
I could rant about this movie for pages. In the end, I was greatly disappointed. For a movie that could have been so great, it ended up being just another movie where the LGBT characters end up either straight, dead, or both.