Glenn Close looks so damn weird in this compared to everyone else, even Janet McTeer, the other cross-dressing woman, who also has make-up. (Glenn's face hardly moves; she looks like a burn victim who's had plastic surgery). It sinks it for me, they should have done it without the prosthetics and if Glenn didn't look enough like a man then called the whole thing off.
Also the plot, I just didn't understand it. If Nobbs is a lesbian it is not made clear, but whether she is or not, you can't just marry someone and suddenly declare you're the opposite sex (even to Mia Wasikowska). So that also sinks it for me.
It's sinking fast, this film, which is a shame as its great cast comprises Brendan Gleeson, Pauline Collins, Mark Williams, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Brenda Fricker and Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the bastard. And the editor is Steven Weisberg (early Cuarons).
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