Rotten
The grim, grey-hued result is about as far from contemporary drag chic as it's possible to get - appropriate for the subject matter, perhaps, but hardly the stuff of satisfying cinema.
Tom Huddleston, Time Out
Albert Nobbs
A man with a secret. A woman with a dream.
2011 · 1h 53m · R
Drama
Directed by
Rodrigo García
Overview
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.
Director and cast
- Rodrigo García Director
- Glenn Close as Albert Nobbs
- Mia Wasikowska as Helen
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Joe
- Janet McTeer as Hubert Page
- Pauline Collins as Margaret Baker
- Brenda Fricker as Polly
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Viscount Yarrell
- Brendan Gleeson as Dr. Holloran
- Maria Doyle Kennedy Cast
- Antonia Campbell-Hughes Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
57%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The film surrounding the performance is not always as strong, but the centre holds, and magnificently so.
Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail
Fresh
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.
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star
Rotten
A movie that, like its title character, never quite dares to let itself discover what it really wants to be.
Dana Stevens, Slate
Rotten
What you feel, watching Close, is not that you are watching gender being bent into new, absorbing shapes but that you might as well have stayed home and leafed through a book on Magritte.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
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