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Cinema

The Danish Girl is a film that is killed by good taste

It looks nice but is dull, repetitive and lacking in insight — and I wanted to punch Eddie Redmayne

2 January 2016

9:00 AM

2 January 2016

9:00 AM

The Danish Girl

15, Nationwide

The Danish Girl is based on the true (if heavily revised and simplified) story of Lili Elbe, one of the first people ever to undergo sex reassignment surgery, but while the timing of this is right — transgender issues are surely the next equality frontier — the film itself somehow isn’t.

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