The Dressmaker

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Based on the novel of the same name by Rosalie Ham, The Dressmaker is an Australian drama directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse. The film is finally getting a Canadian release after premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival last year and becoming one of the biggest box office successes in Australia in 2015. The film stars Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth, and Hugo Weaving.

Tilly Dunnage, a beautiful and talented misfit, after many years working as a dressmaker in exclusive Parisian fashion houses, returns home to the tiny middle-of-nowhere town of Dungatar to right the wrongs of the past. Not only does she reconcile with her ailing, eccentric mother Molly and unexpectedly falls in love with the pure-hearted Teddy, but armed with her sewing machine and incredible sense of style, she transforms the women of the town and in doing so gets sweet revenge on those who did her wrong.

In an interview with Vulture.com Winslet talked about her post-baby body helped her get into her role. “I definitely was softer than I am now, and actually it was just great because it lends itself, that shape, so well to that particular period. I loved it. It accentuated absolutely everything, so that proper, sort of really soft, feminine shape was really gorgeous for the period. And it also gave Tilly a really sassy, European edge, which was right for the role.”

The Dressmaker is rated 14A.