Will The Danish Girl give Eddie Redmayne another Oscar?

Focus Features have just released the first trailer of ‘The Danish Girl’ and if this clip is anything to go by then it is obvious that its star Eddie Redmayne is heading for his second Best Actor Oscar this year.   This true story is set in Copenhagen in the early 1920s , and the illustrator and artist Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander) asks her husband, Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne) to stand in for a female model. The popularity of the portraits leads to Gerda painting her husband in further pictures as a woman. Einar develops an attraction for a female physical appearance and begins living as a woman named Lili Elbe. Ultimately Elbe becomes the first ever recipient of male to female sex reassignment surgery, and Gerda supports her decision, although their marriage becomes strained when Gerda comes to the realization that Lili is no longer the person she married. A childhood friend of Einar, Hans Axgil (Matthias Schoenaerts), shows up and forms a complex love triangle with the couple.

Directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper (“The King’s Speech,” “Les Misérables”) the movie will be premiered at Venice Film Festival this week, and then released in US movie theaters on November 27th.   We cannot wait!