![]() ![]() The Danish Girl "Do me a small favor?" In novelist David Ebershoff's 2002 modern masterpiece, a wife's offhand request for her husband, Einar, to try on a pair of woman's shoes leads to a life-altering transformation for her spouse. "If you could have anything, what would it be?" "A house, a dog, a woman I love who loves me." The proceedings, from director Peter Sollett with a screenplay by Ron Nyswaner, are enlivened by a rare non-comic turn from Steve Carell as the couple's feisty Jewish (with his own issues) attorney. The story opens with an eloquent declaration of love and a desire to nest by a couple (Julianne Moore and Ellen Page) who discover that their dreams can be blocked by a cadre of small-minded male judges. Here are at least two dozen reasons for making moviegoing a regular habit from now until Christmas.įreeheld Laurel Hester probably never imagined that her wish to leave her government pension, earned as an openly lesbian police officer, to her female lover would result in a landmark 21st-century civil rights case. The fall film season is unusually promising for LGBTQ filmgoers. ![]()
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