like both its leads, the film is a pleasure to look at
beautiful, humane and moving biopic
a respectable if somewhat emotionally muted retelling of a remarkable life
a delicately crafted, sad and strangely muted story
"The Danish Girl" is so primly told (bar perhaps one tucking scene), and it treads so delicately around even the most conservative sensibilities, that it might just work to change some minds, which makes it valuable in a way an edgier, swifter