This film screened 12 January.

FEAST YOUR EYES

Our Feast Your Eyes event – pairing a feature with a specially devised menu – will be The Danish Girl on Tuesday, January 12th at 18.30. Tickets €20. (Click here for the main The Danish Girl event page.)

Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) stars as Einar Wegener, a Danish artist who was one of the first recipients of gender reassignment surgery in this delicate, beautifully composed biopic directed by another Oscar winner, Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech).

Married couple Einar and Gerda (Alicia Vikander) are artists in 1920s Copenhagen, both painters, he of landscapes and she of portraits. One morning Gerda asks her husband to sit for a portrait of a ballerina, awakening in Einar a long repressed desire to explore his feminine side, which finds expression in the creation of Lili Elbe, his increasingly dominant alter ego. Gerda’s paintings of him as a woman start to get serious attention, but the distinction between Einar and Lili continues to blur to the point where Einar chooses to physically become Lili. (Notes by David O’Mahony)

MENU

Danske Frikadeller

Pan-fried pork rissoles served with a rich gravy, potatoes and a pickled vegetable salad

Røget Makrel

Smoked Mackerel on a traditional Danish vegetable and potato salad with brown rye bread

Gule Ærter

Hearty casserole of yellow split peas with buttered white asparagus and mustard

Don’t forget we now schedule weekly.