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    Albert Nobbs

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    "Albert Nobbs" features excellent performances and a sad, touching story that will keep you intrigued throughout. Set in the 1800s, Albert (Glenn Close) is a woman living as a man working as a hotel waiter. Having lived and worked under this false identity for 30 years, she's saved a sum of money that is nearly large enough to allow her to buy a shop. This is her ticket to some freedom in a world where the options for women are extremely limited. When Albert becomes infatuated with a maid at the hotel (Mia Wasikowska) all of her best-laid plans are threatened.

    As a period piece "Albert Nobbs" is very convincing, with excellent sets and costumes. It's one area where cutting corners does not pay off in a film set in the past and I'm glad to see that a great attention to detail is present here. In this setting we have some solid performances from everyone, notably Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who plays a character that really starts to mess things up for Albert. With that said, this isn't a picture that I would necessarily call "fun" to sit through. It's never slow and there's a lot of enjoyment to be had from the technical aspects of it, but this is a saaad movie. You want to cheer for Albert because she's a tragic character. Even without the heartbreaking back story as to how she ended up dressing as a man, the fact that she's a woman forced to lie to everyone every day just to get by is distressing. What's worse is that you know that if the truth ever comes out, everything will come crashing down like a skyscraper made of cardboard during a thunderstorm. You're just praying that everything will just keep moving along as it has for all of those years until enough money is accumulated. Then, the maid Helen comes into the mix. This fascination breaks your heart because Albert is so naïve about everything and she's always on the edge of being exposed. When I realized that Albert was considering wooing the young woman, I knew that nothing good could come of it. It's going to be a money sink that will go nowhere, and even if Helen did accept to marry Albert down the line, what then?

    "Albert Nobbs" is entertaining all the way through so you'll want to stick with the story and find out where it goes. Expect to leave at least a little bit upset or misty-eyed. To me, there were times where it feels more like a slice of day-to-day life than a genuine story and that might be frustrating for some. For a while I really didn't know where the story was going, but not In the sense that it's not predictable, in the sense that I didn't really know when the story was going to really get started, or If it had already started. If you're interested in the movie from hat you've heard or the trailers you probably already have the patience to make it through the slower sequences, so I wouldn't worry about that. For all of the things that work in "Albert Nobbs" it's well worth your time to catch it, particularly for the excellent performance by Glenn Close. (On DVD, December 28, 2012)

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    adamwatchesmovies@  1.7.2015 age: 26-35 2,867 reviews

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