Danish director Malou Reymann tells the story of a father transitioning to female with almost too much empathy
Danish director Malou Reymann makes her debut feature with this gentle, open-hearted drama based on her own childhood experience of her dad transitioning to female. The story is told from the perspective of 11-year-old Emma (Kaya Toft Loholt). But Reymann turns the dial on the empathy machine up to 11 – balancing the feelings of all her characters so evenly and with such generosity that in the end I did feel that the niceness of her film left it a bit pale dramatically.
Related: Disclosure: behind Laverne Cox’s Netflix documentary on trans representation
Continue reading…Danish director Malou Reymann tells the story of a father transitioning to female with almost too much empathyDanish director Malou Reymann makes her debut feature with this gentle, open-hearted drama based on her own childhood experience of her dad transitioning to female. The story is told from the perspective of 11-year-old Emma (Kaya Toft Loholt). But Reymann turns the dial on the empathy machine up to 11 – balancing the feelings of all her characters so evenly and with such generosity that in the end I did feel that the niceness of her film left it a bit pale dramatically. Related: Disclosure: behind Laverne Cox’s Netflix documentary on trans representation Continue reading…