Albert Nobbs

Glenn Close plays a woman pretending to be a man so that she could get a job and then just kind of never stopped pretending.  Like Yentl, this is a story set in the bad old days when a woman couldn’t expect much out of life.  And, also like Yentl, this was a film that didn’t make much sense. Our hero/heroine is a small man working as a waiter at a residence hotel in Dublin in around 1918 or so.  This story was actually written in 1918, which makes me wonder, how common was this whole transvestite thing to get…

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