Glenn Close has spent many a year trying to get Albert Nobbs to the big screen and it could be one of her greatest performances as she takes on the title role.
She leads an all star cast that includes Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Johnson, Brendan Gleeson and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
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 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.
Take a look at the first trailer for the movie:
