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For a short story expanded to feature length, "Albert Nobbs" accommodates an awful lot of narrative complication, though Albert remains a watchful, often mute figure. This is all deliberate, even if it isn't all effective. Yet the two key performances that were nominated this week keep a somewhat placid dramatic experience from fading into the woodwork. At one point Albert goes on seaside holiday with McTeer's Hubert.

These two sport bonnets and dresses, and the scene becomes a decorous drag show twice over, and with real feeling. I've read complaints that Close's Albert doesn't really look like a man. Two responses: 1. Oh, whatever. Take a leap of faith. And 2. MPAA rating: R for some sexuality, brief nudity and language.

Running time: By Michael Phillips. It becomes clear, if it wasn't already, that Albert has only a sketchy idea of what men and women do with each other, what sex is, what marriage is. But she has a dream. She has her eye on a storefront that she believes would make a nice little tobacco shop.

There would be a room in the back where tea would be served. And a room upstairs to, well, to share with a "wife. For Albert, it involves a business partnership, not a romance. This is such a brave performance by Glenn Close, who in making Albert so real, makes the character as pathetic and unlikable as she must have been in life.

The film is based on a story by George Moore , an Irish realist writer who may have known some real-life parallels in Dublin. Close starred in an Off-Broadway production of a play based on it in , and tried ever after to make it a film.

The Hungarian director Istvan Szabo was attached to the project circa , but now the film has been made with Rodrigo Garcia , whose sure touch with women characters can be seen in his " Nine Lives " and " Mother and Child.

Close never steps wrong, never breaks reality. My heart went out to Albert Nobbs, the depth of whose fears are unimaginable. But it is Janet McTeer who brings the film such happiness and life as it has, because the tragedy of Albert Nobbs is that there can be no happiness in her life.

The conditions she has chosen make it impossible. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Rated R for some sexuality, brief nudity and language. Brenda Fricker as Polly.

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Yarrell. Glenn Close as Albert Nobbs. Brendan Gleeson as Doctor. Mia Wasikowska as Helen. Pauline Collins as Mrs. Janet McTeer as Hubert Page. Reviews One of the saddest movies I have ever seen. Roger Ebert January 25, Now streaming on:. Powered by JustWatch. Now playing.