The Danish Girl is a biographical drama based on the novel of the same name by David Ebershoff. The film stars Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe, one of the first known recipients of gender reassignment surgery. In early 1920s Copenhagen, the illustrator and artist Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander) asks her husband, Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne), […]
Attention Thomas Hardy fans! The author’s classic 1874 novel Far from the Madding Crowd has been adapted into a British romantic drama that hits theaters on May 1st. In Victorian England the independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; […]
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