Tag: The Danish Girl

What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 5th February 2016

This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at two more Oscar-nominated films, investigative journalism drama Spotlight and the biopic of transgender pioneer Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl.  We also have a feast of fine music as we begin our serious on the best tracks of the current millennium and play older classics and some fine new releases. 

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Film review: THE DANISH GIRL, from ‘Built For Speed’

The Danish Girl sensitively depicts the life of Danish landscape painter Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne) and his transition from male to female through gender reassignment. Einar was married to painter Gerda (Alicia Vikander) but came to the realisation that he felt more comfortable as a woman. In the mid-1920’s he underwent the first gender reassignment surgery and became Lili. While

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