Life's Changes

Rating: 8/10 (14 January 2016)

This is my review of The Danish Girl (spoiler free).
Cast: Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne*, Academy Award nominee Alicia Vikander** and Ben Whishaw.
Plot: Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne) and his wife Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander) are both painters trying to find their way in the world, but when Einar figures out who he really is he then goes through difficult but life changing choices.
This film is a biography set in Copenhagen, Denmark in the 1920s and takes place over a few months with husband and wife Einar and Gerda Wegener, this film will make you laugh and also make you cry because of the difficult changes being made throughout. Let me go through some points on why I think this film is good:
Performances: The performances in this film were exceptional and might I even say Oscar-worthy, when the film you don't see them even stutter a single and it looks they understood their roles very. Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander's performances were the ones that shone the brightest.
Scripting: This is a minor point the script was good but it could have been better there were few missing lines I felt and a plot hole, wasn't big but but you know it's there but other than that pretty good.
Costume Design: The costume design really set the tone for the film the costumes were made as if taken from the 1920s. It's as if I felt like I was in the 1920s (specifically 1926) the costume designer made for the clothing.
All in all I think this is a really good and well performed period drama that could really make an impact at the awards this year. 8/10 a must watch.
* Best performance by a leading Actor, Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything, 2014), ** Best performance by a leading actress, Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl, 2015).