FILM PICK

THE Danish Girl, RTE 1, Wednesday at 9.35pm

Tom Hooper’s lush period drama is based on a true story and stars Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander as Einar and Gerda Wegener, two Danish painters who are happily married when a chance event reveals to Einar that his identity is really female. The couple leave Copenhagen for Paris, where a long, hard journey towards fulfilment begins. With Matthias Schoenaerts.