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Albert Nobbs

    • Director

      Rodrigo Garcia

    • Credits

      Producers:
      Alan Moloney,
      Glenn Close,
      Bonnie Curtis,
      Julie Lynn

      Cinematographer:
      Michael McDonough

    • Principal Cast

      Glenn Close,
      Aaron Taylor-Johnson,
      Brendan Gleeson,
      Brenda Fricker,
      Mia Wasikowska,
      Janet McTeer,
      Bronagh Gallagher

  • Category

    Feature

19th century Ireland; a woman with no husband or family and without work would face a bleak life of poverty and loneliness. Albert, a shy butler who keeps himself to himself, has been hiding a deep secret for years - he is a woman who has had to dress and behave as a man all her life in order to escape this fate. When handsome painter Hubert Page arrives at the hotel, Albert is inspired to try and escape the false life she has created for herself. She gathers her nerves to court the beautiful, saucy young maid Helen in whom she thinks she's found a soul-mate - but Helen's eye is on a new arrival: handsome, bad-boy Joe, the new handy-man.

As Albert dares to hope that she might one day live a normal life, we catch a glimpse of a free-spirited woman who is caught in the wrong time. This humorous but ultimately poignant ensemble story about life below-stairs is nothing less than Gosford Park meets Boys Don't Cry.

Notes courtesy of Screen Ireland

113 minutes, UK, Ireland, France, USA, 2011, Colour

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