“Redmayne, who rightly won an Oscar for his performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, acts only in a series of awkward, coy smiles, with eyes downcast. That’s what he does, over and over, until I quite wanted to punch him, while crying: ‘Look up, look up! For Christ’s sake, just look up!’”
-Deborah Ross in her Spectator review of The Danish Girl
I tried to watch it. I couldn’t handle the mincy, shallow, bloodless presentation of this woman and this story. It was infuriating to see such a woman reduced to lipstick, doe eyes, dresses and trembling.