Michael & Alicia Fassbender ~ A Loving Couple Thread

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#889
looks like things are going her way
Beatrice Behn ‏@DansLeCinema 3h3 hours ago
The Danish Girl: Alicia #Vikander outshines #Redmayne who seems a little bland and stuck in cliché female gestures. #Venezia72


Ed Frankl ‏@Ed_Frankl 3h3 hours ago
The Danish Girl is clumsy as it goes for overly-sincere prestige pic, but I did like it - Vikander overshadows Redmayne


Lorenzo Ciorcalo ‏@rotovisor 4h4 hours ago
#Venezia72 #TheDanishGirl Lavish and subtle. Redmayne thrills, Vikander shines. The movie breaths with her. Best work by Hooper.
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Awards-wise, it has Most Elaborate Avoidance Of Onscreen Peen and Most Inadvertently Hilarious Use Of Ben Whishaw In A Beret locked down.
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:laugh: shame, i love ben!
 
#897
she could pass as one of the Bennet sisters in that dress and i love it

And as such, the movie winds up belonging, in the performance respect, not to Redmayne but to Vikander. She’s stalwart, sexy, funny, intelligent. I’m no Oscar prognosticator, but if “Ex Machina” is too cerebral for the Academy (and I don’t know that it necessarily is), “The Danish Girl” hasn’t that problem at all, and Vikander’s work here should earn her a Best Actress nomination.

There. I’ve made an Oscar prediction. I feel so dirty
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from Roger & Ebert, i like how they said Ex Machina might be too cerebral for Oscar :laugh:
 
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Strangely,I like that Vuitton. :p It's interesting. I hope that now she can wear another designer...

Some reviews:
http://www.thewrap.com/the-danish-girl-review-eddie-redmayne-alicia-vikander-tom-hooper/
For her part, Vikander adds smoke and shading to a character who could have easily veered into being just one thing, or at least just one thing at a time; she juggles pride and anguish, affection and disappointment, and longing and empathy with great skill.
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http://variety.com/2015/film/festivals/the-danish-girl-film-review-eddie-redmayne-1201586696/
As Hans puts it at a train sendoff that recalls “Casablanca,” “I’ve only really liked a handful of people in my life, and you’ve been two of them.” But Lili’s emergence is a gradual and hesitant process, beautifully embodied by Redmayne — and reflected by Vikander, whose Gerda does her best to adapt alongside her husband, amounting to a substantive role for the film’s resident “Swedish girl.”
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http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompson...ansforms-superbly-in-the-danish-girl-20150905
Vikander, whose own heady rise could only be undermined by over-exposure, is a feisty, funny, warm foil to Redmayne. Gerde is reminiscent of the actress's Vera Brittain in "Testament of Youth" in one important respect: she's a woman who to some degree waives her own pain while attending to that of others. As such, she's just as heartbreaking as Redmayne.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...ing-the-expected-emotional-kick-10488173.html
Vikander is excellent as this devoted and fiery wife whose husband is disappearing in front of her, metamorphosing into a new personality.
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http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayl...-with-eddie-redmayne-alicia-vikander-20150905
So we're left with a film that may nod to, but then delicately look away from anything that threatens to steer the narrative away from the single note of Finding The Courage To Be Yourself. Within this formula, which involves a great deal of face-cradling and whispering on the part of Redmayne (it's such an externalized performance), the MVP is actually Vikander, although the set and costume designers are probably also clearing space on their mantelpieces, while Alexandre Desplat's score (he also worked on "The King's Speech") is the Platonic ideal for this kind of film — melancholic and melodic, with occasional hints of fairytale.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/the-danish-girl/review/
But the film’s secret weapon is Vikander, who’s been blessed with a role that has no truck whatsoever with the usual supportive wife banalities – for stretches of the film, she’s effectively its lead character. The Swedish actress has already had a ludicrously busy year, bouncing between lead roles in Ex Machina and Testament of Youth and fine supporting work in The Man from UNCLE – but here she’s hungry, energised, up on the balls of her feet, and a convincing awards prospect. She also perfectly delivers the film’s most moving line, which comes during her husband’s first consultation with a doctor about the operation that will finally bring nature up to speed with reality.
“I believe I am a woman,” Lili says haltingly, as if the words still strike her as somehow embarrassing, or ridiculous. Gerda turns to the doctor and says very calmly: “I believe it too.” That, perhaps even more so than the surgery, is the transformation that counts.
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http://www.rogerebert.com/festivals-and-awards/venice-film-festival-2015-the-danish-girl
And as such, the movie winds up belonging, in the performance respect, not to Redmayne but to Vikander. She’s stalwart, sexy, funny, intelligent. I’m no Oscar prognosticator, but if “Ex Machina” is too cerebral for the Academy (and I don’t know that it necessarily is), “The Danish Girl” hasn’t that problem at all, and Vikander’s work here should earn her a Best Actress nomination.
There. I’ve made an Oscar prediction. I feel so dirty.
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Ranaya said:
she could pass as one of the Bennet sisters in that dress and i love it


from Roger & Ebert, i like how they said Ex Machina might be too cerebral for Oscar :laugh:
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It's very true. The Danish Girl is something that could easily please the Academy.
I agree about the dress :p,but more the Wright's movie...

http://thefilmstage.com/reviews/venice-review-the-danish-girl/
Vikander is every bit as good as the vivacious, sexually assured Gerda. As someone who knows what she wants and is not afraid to experiment, she plays the scene where she persuades Einar to attend the party in drag with just the right mix of tease, encouragement, mischief and arousal. Her bossy confidence and Redmayne’s elfin bashfulness are both highly appealing and balance one another perfectly, turning a scenario that’s often treated with an air of taboo into something refreshingly fun and desirable.
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Interesting article written by Guy Lodge on Variety:
http://variety.com/2015/film/in-con...-danish-girl-awards-possibilities-1201586826/
Yet the surprise of “The Danish Girl” — and it’s a film of few surprises, taking precisely the decorous, crowd-pleasing approach to tricky subject matter that one would expect from Hooper’s previous work — is that it’s as much Vikander’s showcase as it is Redmayne’s. As told in Lucinda Coxon’s screenplay, Gerda’s story is as emotionally compelling as Lili’s, as she has to override her own desires and reservations in order to set her husband free. The film is fashioned very much as the story of a marriage in crisis, forced to end despite deep reserves of love on either side. Toggling sensuality and sensitivity, with a latent streak of anger throughout, Vikander plays her half beautifully: It’s not as tonally exciting as her “Ex Machina” turn, and a little more limpid than her current career peak of “Testament of Youth,” but with a fair wind for the film itself, it’s the stuff that best actress campaigns are built upon.

Where does this leave Redmayne? Not, at the stage, at any particular disadvantage. His work as Lili is typically dedicated and physically studied, and will attract much praise — though for this writer, he’s a little less persuasive than his co-star, playing the character’s gender dysphoria from the outside in. (It should be mentioned that no attempt is made, for better or worse, to age up the actors, both of whose characters were in their late 40s by the point at which the film leaves them.) As a technical feat of thespian metamorphosis, it’s less spectacular than what he achieved in “The Theory of Everything.” Consecutive acting Oscars are, needless to say, rare achievements: The last person to manage one, over 20 years ago, was Tom Hanks, buoyed by the best picture nomination and popular phenomenon status of “Forrest Gump.”
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#900
It's wonderful to read all the great reviews, so happy for them. Ex Machina truly deserves some recognition, if not for Alicia and Oscar's wonderful performances then att least for Alex Garland's amazing original screenplay. I will be furious if Garland doesn't get some sort of recognition come award season. That movie was pretty close to perfection.

I like the dress too, I'm not particularly fond of LV but Alicia manage to pull it off. I like that she takes risks and never are boring on the red carpet! :)
 
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