Chapeau!

Rating: 8/10 (20 June 2016)

The Danish Girl is masterful. I had not read the synopsis or any review of the film, so coming into it without background, I found it transporting. For me it was not a transgender question or a social stigma question, so it did not provoke in me a moral righteous reaction to how the subject was handled whether lightly or accurately or offensively to those who have different expectations. For me, the story is an intimate undramatised personal experience of a couple living a threatening and natural transformation. And the actors deliver flawlessly the maturity and honesty and will to find a form that is viable to their continuity. It is an example of how a couple undergoing critical challenges can hold itself by the qualities of real love, of adaptability and a surmounting commitment of being oneself. The film manages to impress on me the behavior of the two towards themselves and with each other, where they could have otherwise easily turned one against the other. This is a story of respect, of sensitizing with the soul, of riveting in nature. Produced with an aesthetic and at a pace that stirs a desire and pleasure in being.