....starring Glenn Close and found it interesting for the acting and the period detail.
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However, I recalled how those same cinematic offerings were available in John Huston's "The Dead," a somewhat similar movie adapted from a James Joyce story, which I enjoyed more.
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Spoilers ahead!!!!
Glenn Close was good in the title role here and has an Best Actress Oscar nomination to show for her performance.
She plays a woman posing as a man in 19th century Dublin, trapped there in a prison of her own making.
That's how the movie is summarized in the IMDb link above and I have precious little to add.
Glenn hardly changes her facial expression at all during this entire movie and keeps her back story and feelings as closely (not intended as a pun) bound up as her breasts beneath her masculine clothing.
Everything's shown in her expressive eyes, which wouldn't have been very visible when she did the same role on stage over a decade ago.
Her performance and Nobb's character are most memorable, IMO, for being calm, passive, blank, reticent and repressed.
I thought Janet McTeer played a more interesting character in this movie, another female passing for a male room painter, with more back story revealed and more emotion shown in her performance.
But I suppose that difference between them was a main point this thoughtful film was making.
McTeer has a Best Supporting Actress nomination and, IMHO, a better chance than does Close at winning an Oscar.
And two of the three girl singers from "The Commitments," Maria Doyal Kennedy and Bronagh Gallagher, are featured also.
I can easily remember Glenn having stronger acting performances, although most often in supporting roles.
However, the cross-dressing thing has appealed to the Academy in the past with "Tootsie," "Boys Don't Cry," "The Crying Game" and "The Year of Living Dangerously."
But, even so, I suspect that portraying understated Albert Nobbs, a title character sorely lacking personal definition (for that's this character's most defining feature), will most likely be an unrewarding role for the actress, if she's in search of an award.
JMO.
Your thoughts?
The Link
However, I recalled how those same cinematic offerings were available in John Huston's "The Dead," a somewhat similar movie adapted from a James Joyce story, which I enjoyed more.
The Link
Spoilers ahead!!!!
Glenn Close was good in the title role here and has an Best Actress Oscar nomination to show for her performance.
She plays a woman posing as a man in 19th century Dublin, trapped there in a prison of her own making.
That's how the movie is summarized in the IMDb link above and I have precious little to add.
Glenn hardly changes her facial expression at all during this entire movie and keeps her back story and feelings as closely (not intended as a pun) bound up as her breasts beneath her masculine clothing.
Everything's shown in her expressive eyes, which wouldn't have been very visible when she did the same role on stage over a decade ago.
Her performance and Nobb's character are most memorable, IMO, for being calm, passive, blank, reticent and repressed.
I thought Janet McTeer played a more interesting character in this movie, another female passing for a male room painter, with more back story revealed and more emotion shown in her performance.
But I suppose that difference between them was a main point this thoughtful film was making.
McTeer has a Best Supporting Actress nomination and, IMHO, a better chance than does Close at winning an Oscar.
And two of the three girl singers from "The Commitments," Maria Doyal Kennedy and Bronagh Gallagher, are featured also.
I can easily remember Glenn having stronger acting performances, although most often in supporting roles.
However, the cross-dressing thing has appealed to the Academy in the past with "Tootsie," "Boys Don't Cry," "The Crying Game" and "The Year of Living Dangerously."
But, even so, I suspect that portraying understated Albert Nobbs, a title character sorely lacking personal definition (for that's this character's most defining feature), will most likely be an unrewarding role for the actress, if she's in search of an award.
JMO.
Your thoughts?
