Country: Japan
Year: 2011
Duration: 114'
19th century Ireland. Albert, the illegitimate daughter of unknown parents, decided to pretend she is a man in order to find work as a butler. After working for almost 20 years at Morrison’s Hotel in Dublin, Albert has perfectly taken on the personality of an impeccable waiter, until one day a fascinating painter arrives at the hotel. Albert, who wants to meet the painter, tries to enlist the help of the trusted maid Helen, but she, too, has fallen under the spell of a charming man, the handyman Joe. “Albert, Helen and Joe offer each other the opportunity of escaping their circumstance – of freeing themselves through love, through sex, through the others’ luck or money. They need each other as much as they are bad for each other, and so the combination of their personalities and of their constraints is explosive. There’s nothing genteel or formal or restrained about the emotions of this story and I want to make a film that reflects that – the frustrations and the obsessions – and about how much these characters are willing to do to get their due in the world.”
Biography
film director
Rodrigo García
Rodrigo García (Bogotá, Colombia) debuted as a director in 1999 with Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, which received an award the following year at Cannes in the section Un certain regard. Over the next few years, he alternated directing films, including Nine Lives, which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno in 2005, and numerous TV programs, including episodes of famous series such as The Sopranos or Six Feet Under. In 2008, he created the series In Treatment. Always in 2008, he returned to feature-length movies with Passengers, followed by Mother and Child, which was presented at the Toronto Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (Le cose che so di lei, 1999), Six Feet Under (ep. A Private Life; id., ep. Una questione privata, mm, tv, 2001; ep. In the Game; id., ep. Il gioco della vita, mm, tv, 2002; ep. Perfect Circles; id., ep. Cerchi perfetti, mm, tv, 2003; ep. A Coat of White Primer; id., ep. Una vita che non se ne va, mm, tv, 2005), The Sopranos (ep. All Happy Families; I Soprano, ep. La mossa migliore, mm, tv, 2004), Nine Lives (9 vite da donna, 2005), Six Degrees (Pilot; Six Degrees - Sei gradi di separazione, ep. pilota, mm, tv, 2006), In Treatment (id., mm, tv, 2008-2010), Passengers (Passengers - Mistero ad alta quota, 2008), Mother and Child (2009), Albert Nobbs (2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Rodrigo García
soggetto/story
dal racconto/from the short story The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs di/by George Moore
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Gabriella Prekop, John Banville, Glenn Close
fotografia/cinematography
Michael McDonough
montaggio/film editing
Steven Weisberg
scenografia/production design
Patrizia Von Brandenstein
costumi/costume design
Pierre-Yves Gayraud
musica/music
Brian Byrne
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs), Aaron Johnson (Joe), Mia Wasikowska (Helen), Janet McTeer (Hubert), Pauline Collins (la signora/Mrs Baker), Brenda Fricker (Polly), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Viscount Yarrell), Brendan Gleeson (il dottor/Dr Holloran)
produttori/producers
Glenn Close, Bonnie Curtis, Julie Lynn, Alan Moloney
produzione/production
Trillium Production, Mockingbird Pictures, Parallel Film Productions
vendita all’estero/world sales
WestEnd Films
