Albert Nobbs (2011)
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56% of critics liked it
(147 reviews) -
48% of users liked it
(8,805 ratings)
Five-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close stars in this emotional and thought-provoking tale of a woman forced to live as a man in 19th Century Ireland. After thirty years of keeping up the charade, a new love threatens to destroy everything she's worked so hard to build.. -- (C) Roadside… More Five-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close stars in this emotional and thought-provoking tale of a woman forced to live as a man in 19th Century Ireland. After thirty years of keeping up the charade, a new love threatens to destroy everything she's worked so hard to build.. -- (C) Roadside Attractions
- Directed By
- Rodrigo García
- Written By
- Glenn Close, John Banville
- Genres
- Drama
- In Theaters
- Jan 27, 2012 Limited
- Studio
- Roadside Attractions
Critic Reviews
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Tom Huddleston, Time Out
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.
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Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail
The film surrounding the performance is not always as strong, but the centre holds, and magnificently so.
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Linda Barnard, Toronto Star
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.
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Dana Stevens, Slate
A movie that, like its title character, never quite dares to let itself discover what it really wants to be.
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Anthony Lane, New Yorker
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.
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Cast
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Glenn Close
as Albert Nobbs
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Mia Wasikowska
as Helen
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Janet McTeer
as Hubert
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Brendan Gleeson
as Dr. Holloran, Holloran
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Aaron Johnson
as Joe
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Brenda Fricker
as Polly
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Antonia Campbell-Hughes
as Emmy
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Pauline Collins
as Mrs. Baker
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Maria Doyle Kennedy
as Mary
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Mark Williams
as Sean
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James Greene
as Patrick
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Serena Brabazon
as Mrs. Moore
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Michael McElhatton
as Mr. Moore
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Dolores Mullally
as Milady
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Bonnie McCormack
as Miss Shaw
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Phyllida Law
as Mrs. Cavendish
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Kenneth Collard
as M. Pigot
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Judy Donovan
as Mme. Pigot
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers
as Viscount Yarrell
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge
as Viscountess Yarrell
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Emerald Fennell
as Mrs. Smythe-Willard
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John Light
as Mr. Smythe-Willard
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Daniel Costello
as Mr. Sweeney
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Angeline Ball
as Mrs. Gilligan
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Philip O'Sullivan
as Mr. Gilligan
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Katie Long
as Young Kitchen Maid
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Katie O'Brien
as Older Kitchen Maid
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Mark Doherty
as Porter
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Rhys Burke
as George Moore
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Lauren Kinsella
as Milly Moore
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Katie Ann McDonough
as Laundry Maid
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Kathleen Warner Yates
as Laundry Maid
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Cate MacGabhann
as Laundry Maid
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Bronagh Gallagher
as Cathleen
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Antoinette Healy
as Woman on Landau
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Annie Starke
as Chocolate Shop Waitress
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Cathy White
as Nanny
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Malcolm Blacow
as Health Official
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Lily Melcher
as Country Girl
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Lucie Melcher
as Country Girl
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Raul Riva
as Baby
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Juno
as Polly's Dog
- Amanda Seyfried
- Orlando Bloom





