Albert Nobbs (2011)

 ...And with this interesting British film with Glenn Close, I send you all 2012 wishes for a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year!!!

Albert Nobbs is a passion project for Glenn Close. The actress first starred as the cross-dressing protagonist in the Broadway play in 1982 and has wanted to turn it into a feature film ever since. After securing financing last year, it came to fruition and the final product is well worth it.

Albert Nobbs is, by all appearances, a quiet and polite servant in an Irish hotel. But what his coworkers don't know is that he's a woman. Albert saves the money he makes and stows it carefully under a floorboard in his room. His life consists of work and dreaming about owning his own tobacco shop, while concealing his true identity, the one he's successfully hidden for 30 years.

The question of this era is always this: Are they lesbians, or are they transgender? But this, of course, it not so simple. Their desire to have the lives of men does not necessarily mean they want to be men. But this also works for their desire to marry women. Perhaps they want to marry women because they are living as men, and not because they have sexual desire for them. It varies on an individual basis, which is clear in the film, as Albert and Hubert seem to have different motivations for their means of getting by. Albert is chastised by Helen for not wanting to kiss her. Hubert, on the other hand, is deeply in love with his wife and sees her as a lover as well as a partner. Albert does not seem to be romantically motivated.

These were very real issues for women in the early 20th century. Radclyffe Hall, author of The Well of Loneliness, is one of the best examples, as she preferred to dress and be seen as male. The protagonist in her novel was the same way, this being called "sexual inversion" at the time.

In a telling interview with IndieWire, McTeer said, "There were a lot of people who lived like this. One thing you have to remember in England that is different from over here is that sodomy, if you're a guy, it's illegal. You'd be kicked out of the country. There was nothing against lesbianism because Queen Victoria didn't believe it existed."

In the same interview, Close says, "Hubert is exactly who Hubert wants to be. He's fine. He's really happy. Sometimes I call him he, sometimes she… I think he thinks of himself as a him. I think he loves life. He's got a great bounce. She loves laughing, she loves flirting, she's incredibly happy."

The message behind Albert Nobbs can be summed up in this line delivered by Hubert: "Albert, you can be whoever you are." You'll just have to watch the entire film to see if that turns out to be true. Review by Afterellen.com

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