You would definitely recall the movie, "Victor, Victoria". In that movie, the Julie Andrews persona had to dress like a man to obtain employment to survive the harsh winter.
Here, we return to a similar premise in bleak 19th Century Dublin where a woman called Albert Nobbs worked as a male waiter in a hotel trying to save money to buy a tobacconist business.
Straight-faced Glenn Close is Albert and she put on one real mean disturbing performance.
The movie also exposes the possibility of an informal same sex marriage though not in the form it is occurring today.
An emotionally charged movie where in the end, there is little poetic justice as Albert, already savaged by typhoid fever, dies of grief and loss all his savings to the hotel proprietress.
Though Glenn put up a good performance here as Nobbs, she lost the Academy Award to the indomitable Meryl Streep.
