In Theaters: January 27th, 2012
Runtime: 1 hour 54 minutes (114 minutes)
Rated R for some sexuality, brief nudity and language.
Genre: Drama
Confusing.
Worth
Missing.
Award winning actress Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs) plays a woman passing as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making. Mia Wasikowska (Helen), Aaron Johnson (Joe) and Brendan Gleeson (Dr. Holloran) join a prestigious, international cast that includes Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Janet McTeer, Brenda Fricker and Pauline Collins. Rodrigo Garcia directs from a script that Glenn Close, along with Man Booker prize-winning novelist John Banville and Gabriella Prekop, adapted from a short story by Irish author George Moore.
The film surrounding the performance is not always as strong, but the centre holds, and magnificently so.
Critic Score: 3.5/5
Albert is at the heart of it all and we see her through her own prism of vulnerability, resulting in a very human story about the search for love, acceptance and understanding of the self.
Critic Score: 3.5/5