Albert Nobbs
who is living in a marriage with another woman, Albert begins to imagine a different future for herself. Albert’s decision to live as a man makes perfect sense, given the lack of palatable livelihoods available to women, and as a response to the character’s history of childhood poverty and sexual assault. But in a world offering few choices, only soul-killing compromises, seeing Hubert’s relationship finally provides Albert with hope for an alternative to her furtive, fear-filled, and lonely life.
Albert Nobbs, a 2011 Irish period drama set in late 1800s Dublin. The film was a passion project of its star, Glenn Close (who plays Albert), who worked for over 30 years to transform the story to film. Albert Nobbs is a woman who, desperate for safety and economic security, masquerades as a man in order to obtain service work as a waiter in a high-class Dublin hotel. When Albert meets another cross-dressing woman, Hubert,
Interviews
An interview with Glenn Close
An interview with Glenn Close and co-start Janet McTeer