‘Albert Nobbs’, like its central figure, never truly lets the audience in
Albert Nobbs Directed by Rodrigo Garcia Screenplay by Glenn Close and John Banville U.K, Ireland, 2011 Mainstream cinema has a difficult time tackling what some big studio executives might view as the ‘icky’ side of gender politics. Cross-dressing, homosexuality and its oft-maligned offspring themes of homo-eroticism, transsexuals, etc. These are topics which, if one is …