Potentially awesome

Or possibly one of those "issue" movies that gets it all wrong and wins an Oscar precisely for that reason.  Albert Nobbs, a new Glenn Close movie. 



A review from Telluride:

"Introducing a screening on Friday night, Ms. Close, who is a producer and writer of the film, said she had spent twenty years trying to bring the project of adapting the Irish writer George Moore’s short story to fruition. (She appeared in a stage version in 1982). Albert Nobbs, played by Ms. Close, is a woman who has spent her whole adult life passing as a man, and who works as a waiter in a turn-of-the-century Dublin hotel. It was hard to believe that the radiant blonde movie star at the microphone and the taciturn, red-haired, slightly Chaplinesque figure in the movie were the same person, but such incredulity is part of the pleasure we take in great acting. ..."

I guess my question is what the takeaway is.  Many of the primary historical figures who got recorded, i.e., got caught or didnae hide, have been chalked up to economics - making a living in a man's time.  There's often been more there but the history of what is now called transgender and of cross-dressing lesbians for whom economics was not the only motivating factor has often been suppressed or obscured.

I want to be excited for a new movie, there are so few that truly do that these days, but I'm skeptical here.