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The Dressmaker(2015)
Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Writers: Jocelyn Moorhouse (screenplay), Rosalie Ham (novel)
Cast: Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth
Genre: Dark Comedy, Drama
About: A glamorous social outcast who returns to the rural Australian town in which she grew up...and was accused of murder 25 years ago when she was a 10 years old.
The year is 1951 and Tilly (Kate Winslet) returns from her high-fashion dressmaking career in Paris, to her hometown of Dungatar, a dreary, sheep town, where her ill mother lives...The small town is full of gossip and consider Tilly, a bad omen.
Armed with her sewing machine and a furious sense of determination, Tilly transforms the ragamuffin women of this dirty sheep town into haute couture style, with the latest in Paris fashions.
But the town won't forgive her for her and they make her life hell...she pays them back, double.
Review: The Dressmaker is based on Rosalie Ham's best selling novel of the same name. Director & writer Jocelyn Moorhouse serves up a stylish revenge comedy-drama film that she describes as, "Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven with a sewing machine."
This 2015 Australian film, was critically acclaimed, and it should be as it's one very unique movie. The set designer had the town built in a remote region and created an American style 19th century western town with Australian characters.
The film is R rated and it's not a touchy-feel good movie. It's comedy is a bit on the dark side at times, but never goes to far or too dark. I thought Kate Winslet and all the actors in this colorful film were, well colorful! I enjoyed it, it's original, it has high fashion among the sheep dung and dust. It's funny and looks fabulous.
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The Dressmaker(2015)
Writers: Jocelyn Moorhouse (screenplay), Rosalie Ham (novel)
Cast: Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth
Genre: Dark Comedy, Drama
About: A glamorous social outcast who returns to the rural Australian town in which she grew up...and was accused of murder 25 years ago when she was a 10 years old.
The year is 1951 and Tilly (Kate Winslet) returns from her high-fashion dressmaking career in Paris, to her hometown of Dungatar, a dreary, sheep town, where her ill mother lives...The small town is full of gossip and consider Tilly, a bad omen.
Armed with her sewing machine and a furious sense of determination, Tilly transforms the ragamuffin women of this dirty sheep town into haute couture style, with the latest in Paris fashions.
But the town won't forgive her for her and they make her life hell...she pays them back, double.
Review: The Dressmaker is based on Rosalie Ham's best selling novel of the same name. Director & writer Jocelyn Moorhouse serves up a stylish revenge comedy-drama film that she describes as, "Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven with a sewing machine."
The film is R rated and it's not a touchy-feel good movie. It's comedy is a bit on the dark side at times, but never goes to far or too dark. I thought Kate Winslet and all the actors in this colorful film were, well colorful! I enjoyed it, it's original, it has high fashion among the sheep dung and dust. It's funny and looks fabulous.
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