I have just finished watching one the most amazing films I have seen in a long while ...
The "man" of the title is played by Glenn Close who does a stunning performance of a man ... beautifully done
The background is that in Ireland at the turn of the century, there was so much poverty that some women started to take on a man's identity just in order to eat and live. Albert Nobbs is based on an 1895 novella by George Moore, via a 1982 stage production in which Glenn Close also starred. It took her 30 years of trying to get the film made ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... bert-nobbs
You have until this Saturday to see it, be wanred it has a real tear-jerking end to it.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/ap ... ert-nobbs#
..and yes, that pic is really Glenn Close !