The Dressmaker
In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. Thanks to her sewing machine and haute couture style, she transforms the women and exacts revenge on those who did her wrong.
13 November 1959, London, England, UK
1 April 1976, Australia
23 April 1955, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
24 November 1949, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
July1980, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
1956, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
1941, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
30 July 1966, Wellington, New Zealand
June 27, 1953 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
9 June 1930, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
March 13, 2017
Winslet and Davis are formidable in "The Dressmaker."
September 28, 2016
Whatever were they smoking?
September 23, 2016
Positively explodes with a surfeit of pent-up creative energy that unfortunately doesn't know when to stop.
March 03, 2017
Actually, it's Hogan's sensibility that is the real star of The Dressmaker. He adapts the Rosalie Ham novel, a neo-feminist soap opera, to salute the indefatigable brotherhood and sisterhood of women and gay men who struggle to find acceptance and love.
March 23, 2017
Is The Dressmaker a comedy? Or a tragedy? It tries to be both, and ends up being neither.
September 30, 2016
There's plenty to admire here, especially if your taste is tailored to the unusual.
September 23, 2016
Kate Winslet can do anything ... except save this movie from quirky overkill.
March 15, 2017
The opening is brilliant, the cinematography is pristine, the acting -- especially by Davis and Winslet -- is good across the board.
January 13, 2017
"The Dressmaker" wraps a pig pen of a town and its porky inhabitants in silk. It tackles the feeling of being cursed by your confines and the toxicity of small town gossip mongering; with beauty, death, romance and hilarity.
September 23, 2016
The second Winslet sets her sewing machine on the ground and snarls, "I'm back, you bastards," we're delighted to hear we're in for something fun.
February 21, 2017
The Dressmaker is wonderfully complex and funny, with brilliant performances from Winslet and Davis.
September 23, 2016
The film has so many moodswings that watching it induces whiplash, and just about everybody in it, from Winslet on down to Judy Davis, playing the dressmaker's crotchety mother, flagrantly overdoes it.
