Classic Movie – ‘The Dressmaker’

Based on the bestselling novel by Rodalie Ham, The Dressmaker is a bittersweet, comedy-drama set in early 1950’s Australia.

Tilly Dunnage (Kate Winslet), 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 (Judy Davis) and unexpectedly falls in love with the pure hearted Teddy (Liam Hemshworth), 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.