Albert Nobbs | Mediatheque Numerique

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Au XIXème siècle, dans l’Irlande en proie à de terribles difficultés économiques, une femme se fait passer pour un homme afin de pouvoir travailler. Pendant trente ans, elle trompe son entourage, employée dans un hôtel sous le nom d’Albert Nobbs, en tant que majordome...

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Travail Transformation Mensonge Féminité Europe Adaptation littéraire Historique Ambiguité Crise économique

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Critiques (9)

The Observer - Philip French: Albert Nobbs
Ever since playing the title role of Albert Nobbs in an off-Broadway adaptation of George Moore's novella back in 1982, Glenn Close has wanted to bring this tale of a cross-dresser in late 19th-century Dublin to the screen. Her labour of love is an affecting, handsomely mounted affair set in the world of Joyce's Dubliners, and its subjects are sexual oppression, the exploitation of women in patriarchal society, gender identity and the shaping and misshaping of character. Most of the action occurs in and around a small hotel where Nobbs has long worked as a waiter, living in a top-floor room alongside the other servants. But the best, most involving scenes centre on her relationship with another cross-dresser, the painter and decorator "Mr Page" (Janet McTeer).
Nobbs, a Londoner, adopted male disguise as a teenage orphan to escape from male abuse and find independent work; Page fled from a violent husband, taking his tools with her, and contracted a marriage to the loving Cathleen (the excellent Bronagh Gallagher). Particularly moving are the scenes involving the two women, especially a visit Nobbs makes to the Pages in their warm, welcoming home and a sequence where she and McTeer dress as women and walk on the beach. McTeer's performance is one of the most convincing of its kind I've ever seen. Close, looking rather like a pickled version of Gabriel Byrne and sporting a sub-cockney accent disturbingly reminiscent of Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins, is both the film's generous begetter and also its central problem.
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert: Albert Nobbs
"Close never steps wrong, never breaks reality. My heart went out to Albert Nobbs, the depth of whose fears are unimaginable. But it is Janet McTeer who brings the film such happiness and life as it has, because the tragedy of Albert Nobbs is that there can be no happiness in her life. The conditions she has chosen make it impossible."
Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum: Albert Nobbs
"Close's passion for the character she plays -  a role, she has explained in interviews, that has absorbed her since she first played Nobbs on stage 30 years ago - contains its own intrigue."
Excessif - Gilles Botineau: Albert Nobbs
(...) le résultat se révèle être à la hauteur du travail accompli : brillant. (...) [Glenn Close] trouve certainement avec "Albert Nobbs", personnage "travesti", l'un de ses plus beaux rôles.
La Croix - Arnaud Schwartz: Albert Nobbs
L'intelligence du propos, la mise en scène méticuleuse et l'interprétation stupéfiante de Glenn Close font d'"Albert Nobbs" une très belle réussite.
The Guardian - Philip French: Albert Nobbs
"Nobbs, a Londoner, adopted male disguise as a teenage orphan to escape from male abuse and find independent work; Page fled from a violent husband, taking his tools with her, and contracted a marriage to the loving Cathleen (the excellent Bronagh Gallagher). Particularly moving are the scenes involving the two women, especially a visit Nobbs makes to the Pages in their warm, welcoming home and a sequence where she and McTeer dress as women and walk on the beach. McTeer's performance is one of the most convincing of its kind I've ever seen."
Washington post - Ann Hornaday: Albert Nobbs
"Like the man himself, Albert Nobbs is a sweet, sad, sensitive little film, a haunting reminder that each of us, on some level, is impersonating someone."
Le Monde - Thomas Sotinel: Albert Nobbs
Sous le masque cireux que s'est fait Glenn Close, les émotions finissent par affleurer. On n'attendait pas autant de nuances, de délicatesse, d'une actrice qui a parfois versé dans l'excès (...).
The New York Times - A. O. Scott: Albert Nobbs
"Albert Nobbs explores the complications with a light and sensitive touch. Ms. McTeer’s sly, exuberant performance is a pure delight, and the counterpoint between her physical expressiveness and Ms. Close’s tightly coiled reserve is a marvel to behold. The rest of the film is a bit too decorous and tidy to count as a major revelation, but it dispenses satisfying doses of humor, pathos and surprise.

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