Just what I expected

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Glenn Close gives an outstanding performance as Albert Nobbs. A hard working waiter in a run down but posh hotel in late 19th century Dublin, Albert dreams of getting enough money together to open up a tobacco shop.Albert is a man of few words and fewer relationships with the people he works with. When he is forced to share his room with Hubert who is decorating the hotel, Albert's secret is revealed, he is a woman forced to adopt a male persona to make his way in life and get away from the grasping hands of men. Then again so is Hubert (Janet McTeer) who reveals her magnificent pair of breasts.With Hubert who lives life with a wife in the country, Albert is liberated somewhat as he visits her home, running down the beach wearing a dress for the first time in years.The film is a mixture of the Upstairs Downstairs setting of Dublin society, wealthy patrons who visit the hotel to have a good time. The servants below decks are subservient to them, as one wrong word or move from them could lead to instant dismissal by order of some of these tyrannical guests.It is a sad, grim tale. You sense a downbeat ending as the passive Albert shows an interest in young Helen Dawes (Mia Wasikowska) a maid at the hotel who has a rough boyfriend.Glenn Close played Albert Nobbs in a stage play in the early 1980s and the film adaptation was a labour of love for her. It is a small scale film, but Albert is a character is just so buttoned up in contrast with the more free spirited Hubert.

a great actress becoming part of her role. a story who reminds many others. but , for this motif, it remains unique. and fascinating. because it is just a simple - great story. and nothing else. it gives the portrait of a character who preserves not only the air of the period but the entire fight of generations for the right to be yourself. but it escapes from the formula of social critic or manifesto. because it is a story of survive who becomes a delicate love story. this transformation is one of the huge good points of "Albert Nobbs". because it is more than inspired solution or the spice who gives credibility to the story. but, it is the perfect answer to the viewer expectation. short, one of the most impressive performances of Glenn Close. and more.

ALBERT NOBBS has some highly promising elements to it. The story of a waiter (Glenn Close) born out of wedlock, who has been forced to carve out a career masquerading as a male, offers some trenchant comments on gender and sexualities in late Victorian societies, as well as pointing to the prejudices that we still harbor today.In the closeknit, socially stratified world of Morrison's Hotel, Dublin, presided over by the maitresse d'h (Pauline Collins), men fulfill the active roles while women are consigned into the shadows as chamber-maids, cooks and the like. If anyone such as the housemaid Helen (Maria Wasikowska) is unfortunate enough to get pregnant, they run the risk of being cast out into the street as "brazen hussies." The house-painter Hubert (Janet McTeer) reacts to this situation by living as a man with a spouse in tow; at no point is her masquerade discovered in public.Albert tries the same strategy, but has to trust in others' willingness not to tell her employer what has happened. The fact that this renders her life miserable is obvious: when s/he gets the chance to shed her male attire and don a dress for the first time, the experience is almost overwhelming for her, as she runs along the Dublin sands like a child before falling down over her skirts.Rodrigo Garcia's film makes some good points about the ways in which individuals are constrained by social convention, especially among the lower classes. Servants are routinely abused, and fired at will, while the maitresse d'h profits at their expense while putting on a public mask of Christian charity.On the other hand, the narrative runs out of steam somewhat, as the story descends into sentimentality, especially when Albert believes that he has become attracted to Helen and vies for her attentions with wastrel Joe (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). The contest, predictably, proves an unequal one; and Albert passes away as solitary in death as in life, alone in his poky room at Morrison's. There is a happy ending of sorts; but we feel that director Garcia has somehow missed the opportunity to continue his criticism of sexualities and attitudes towards them. No one, it seems, is any the wiser for having learned about Albert's suffering.

Albert Nobbs: "Life without decency is unbearable".The story is about a woman who struggles to find independence in 19th century Ireland and poses as a man so she can work as a butler at a top hotel. When she meets a painter it gives "Albert" the chance she needs to escape the lie she has been living.Albert Nobbs has been described as an Oscar bait movie that's only purpose of existing is to win prizes, and while I do agree it is a bit Oscar bait and the movie itself is quite forgettable, but I'll be lying if I say there wasn't anything good in it. Compare this to other Oscar bait movies we've had in the past, this one isn't that bad or pretentious. Glenn Close was unrecognizable in this movie. I really bought into her playing a man and it's not just by the make-up that sold the effect off, but the tone of her voice, the movement and the overall performance created the effect perfectly. I'm so shocked that Glenn Close has never won an Oscar yet, as she's been non-stop impressing me in every she's done (including this one). Glenn Close was absolutely outstanding in this movie. The make-up, the costumes and the rest of the cast were all great. These's not a single bad performance in this movie. The staging and the scenery was spot on. Sadly I wish the whole movie was great, but keep in mind that I don't think Albert Nobbs is a bad movie but the movie falls into the cliché gender or sexuality problems that every Oscar bait movie dose. Now I have seen many movies that dose focus on the gender and sexuality issues and the movies themselves were great, because those movies never tried the 'Give me awards' kind of movie, they were good movies and I could easily watch them again as a film, but movies like Albert Nobbs are the type of films that I'll only watch once and never again.Overall Albert Nobbs has fantastic performances from everyone, great make-up and scenery. Unfortunately the film itself isn't what I call "great", just forgettable and it sucks saying that since I know a lot of effort went into this movie.