Eddie Redmayne resists the urge to overplay as Elbe, while Alicia Vikander is extraordinary as Wegener she won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for the role and deserved it. Those claims are valid, but the film is still worth seeing, primarily for the achievements of its actors. But Hooper’s adaptation was criticized for its historical inaccuracies and approach to the material, as well as for centering the narrative on Gerda Wegener, Elbe’s cisgender partner. Tom Hooper’s adaptation of the novel by David Ebershoff was unsurprisingly controversial upon its 2015 release, dealing, as it does, with the true story of the Danish painter Lili Elbe, one of the first people known to have undergone sexual reassignment surgery. Lorraine Toussaint is mighty as the patriarch of the family at the story’s center Gugu Mbatha-Raw is quietly excellent as her troubled daughter. Then again, Hart’s wise and wonderful screenplay (co-written with her husband, Jordan Horowitz, who also produces) doesn’t simply deploy the familiar beats and conflicts this is a character-driven indie drama that just so happens to concern characters with superhuman powers, and that grapples with the real-world implications of their abilities.
The ubiquity and (especially as of late) mediocrity of the mainstream superhero movie is particularly galling when reflecting on the commercial indifference with which Julia Hart’s superhero story was received in 2018. (Dates indicate the final day a title is available.) ‘Fast Color’ (Dec. So load up your queues now, lest you miss your last chance at these gems.
We’ll see the departure of a mix of Oscar winners, comedy franchises, indie dramas and action extravaganzas from Netflix in the U.S.
The end of the year brings the end of many licensing agreements for streaming services, and this month is no exception.
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