Albert NobbsRSS

Glenn Close gives the performance of her career in this 2012 drama film in which she plays a woman disguising herself as a man. Set in 19th century Ireland, when and where a woman with no husband or family and without work would face a bleak life of poverty and loneliness. Albert (Close), 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.