Edit Copenhagen, Denmark, 1926. Einar Wegener (played by Eddie Redmayne) and his wife Gerda (Alicia Vikander) are a happily married couple. Both are artists, Einar preferring landscapes and she portraits. One day Einar poses for a portrait of Gerda's while wearing a dress. This is initially done as a lark, as is the later attendance at a party dressed as a woman. However, Einar soon discovers that she is in fact a woman and over time prefers being Lili. At first she and Gerda try to have her situation "cured" but this leads nowhere (other than to many doctors trying to have Lili locked up as a pervert and/or lunatic). Her voyage of self-discovery will ultimately lead to her undergoing the first ever sex-change operation. Written by
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Plot Summary | Plot Synopsis Taglines:
Find the courage to be yourself.
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Rated R for some sexuality and full nudity |
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View content advisory » Edit When Gerda and Hans (the childhood friend from Vejle) are going to meet for dinner for the first time, we hear Gerda announcing this to Einar by saying they are meeting "chez Dauphine" (in Paris of course). The next scene is in the restaurant, and they (Gerda and Hans) are sitting by a window, where the name of the restaurant, Falstaff (a very well known restaurant in Brussels. opposite the Bourse) can be clearly seen written on the outside side of the window (and thus reverted) for most of the scene. Most of the Paris locations are shot in Brussels, and appear in the final credits, however, strangely enough, not the reference to the Falstaff, which is so evident in that scene.
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American Woman:
Don't you wish you could paint like that? Oh, I'm sorry? I said, don't you wish you could paint like your husband? Really. You must be so proud of him. So elegant.
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Roses of Picardy
by
Frederick Edward Weatherly (as Frederick E. Weatherly) and
Haydn Wood (as Haynd Wood)
Performed by
Marie-Christine Desplat, Sylvette Claudet, Shona Taylor, Nathalie Renault, and Claude Jeantet
Arranged by
Marie-Christine Desplat Courtesy of Certains L'Aiment Chaud
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