Albert's choice as a bride is his younger flirtatious co-worker Helen Dawes, who, unknown to Albert, is already in a sexual relationship with the brusque and sly Joe Mackins, another co-worker recently arrived to Morrison's.
As Albert, Helen and Joe play their respective games of courtship, Albert may find that what seemed to come naturally to Hubert may be more difficult for him. A man with a secret. A woman with a dream. Rated R for some sexuality, brief nudity and language.
Did you know Edit. Trivia Glenn Close not only stars as the lead character Albert, but she also co-wrote the screenplay, wrote the original song for the film and produced. Goofs When Glenn Close is running on the beach, she falls down in a spot where it is obvious that the sand was disturbed in a previous shot or rehearsal. Quotes Albert Nobbs : A life without decency is unbearable. User reviews Review. Top review.
Janet McTeer is The waves of emotion which she wraps into Hubert Page are a wonder to behold. Her performance is not one of those 'knock me over with a feather' performances; it's more like a performance that settles in the bottom of your heart and stays there well after the movie ends.
It keeps you up at night, and tugs at you for days afterward. The story itself is more layered than it appears to be. Glenn Close has brought to the screen a very private yet very emotional character. Such a character is difficult to portray -- and the 'talking to one's self scenes' were a bit annoying, as all such scenes are.
In the end, however, this is a movie well worth your time. JulieKelleher57 Nov 25, FAQ 2. Is this film based on a book? Why did Glenn Close choose this role? Details Edit.
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It's run by the ebullient Mrs. Baker Pauline Collins , who sails a jolly ship but as an employer is no paragon. Employees come and go, and although Albert is considered by everyone an odd fellow, she's still there. Homosexuality is not unknown in this establishment; Viscount Yarrell Jonathan Rhys Meyers checks in with a free-drinking crew and specifies an adjoining room for his friend. But Albert Nobbs isn't a homosexual of any description; life would be simpler if she were.
Hubert is tall, lanky, smokes a lot, kids around, and is obviously to our eyes a woman. She gets by on personality and nerve. She quickly reads Albert, and in what must be the most astonishing moment of Albert's life to date, exposes her breasts and shares her secret.
I wonder if that was the first time Albert realized she wasn't the only person who has ever passed for another sex. That opens the film's only scenes that give us some reason to hope for Albert. The two women spend a liberating day on the beach, and Hubert takes Albert home to her wife, Cathleen played by Bronagh Gallagher with quiet calm and tact.
It becomes clear, if it wasn't already, that Albert has only a sketchy idea of what men and women do with each other, what sex is, what marriage is. But she has a dream. She has her eye on a storefront that she believes would make a nice little tobacco shop.
There would be a room in the back where tea would be served. And a room upstairs to, well, to share with a "wife. For Albert, it involves a business partnership, not a romance.
This is such a brave performance by Glenn Close, who in making Albert so real, makes the character as pathetic and unlikable as she must have been in life. The film is based on a story by George Moore , an Irish realist writer who may have known some real-life parallels in Dublin.
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