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- 2016
- R
- Broad Green Pictures
- 1 h 59 m
- 2016
- R
- Broad Green Pictures
- 1 h 59 m
Summary After years working as a dressmaker in exclusive Parisian fashion houses, Tilly Dunnage (Kate Winslet) returns home to a town in the Australian outback to reconcile with her eccentric mother Molly (Judy Davis). She also falls in love with the pure-hearted Teddy (Liam Hemsworth), and armed with her sewing machine and haute couture style, ...
Directed By: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Written By: Rosalie Ham, P.J. Hogan, Jocelyn Moorhouse
- 2016
- R
- Broad Green Pictures
- 1 h 59 m
- 2016
- R
- Broad Green Pictures
- 1 h 59 m
The Dressmaker
47
7.3
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Summary After years working as a dressmaker in exclusive Parisian fashion houses, Tilly Dunnage (Kate Winslet) returns home to a town in the Australian outback to reconcile with her eccentric mother Molly (Judy Davis). She also falls in love with the pure-hearted Teddy (Liam Hemsworth), and armed with her sewing machine and haute couture style, ...
Directed By: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Written By: Rosalie Ham, P.J. Hogan, Jocelyn Moorhouse
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
47
15% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
70% Mixed
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
15% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
47
15% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
70% Mixed
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
15% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
The Dressmaker’s twists are best experienced blind, and its treats are modest but genuine.
Winslet and Davis salvage what they can from the movie — a heroic effort, almost, making it a fun trifle, albeit one with some deadly serious overtones.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 48 User Ratings
7.3
65% Positive
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
31% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
4% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 48 User Ratings
7.3
65% Positive
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
31% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
4% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
Utterly superb! I wasn't expecting such greatness.
'The Dressmaker', to put it bluntly, is quality! It has a pulse and then some, I love the feel of the film throughout - with all its quirkiness, silliness and straight up brilliantness. It all starts off very strongly, though I did then feel a (very minor) plateau. However, to my surprise, it shoots straight back up as it culminates with a super ending.
Kate Winslet is top notch from beginning to end with an excellent performance, though isn't alone as the support cast all give very good performances - from Judy Davis to Hugo Weaving. I also note Liam Hemsworth, Alison Whyte and, at a certain point, Geneviève Lemon.
What a great film, full of twists n turns and it has a fantastic score. Loved it!
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Australian films are like local wines from Australian vineyards. They don’t always travel. A bore called The Dressmaker is the latest example.
Unfortunately, and despite its promising start, The Dressmaker doesn’t move much beyond the level of well-costumed playacting.
Its admittedly interesting source material, but the movie’s tone is all over the place and not in a good way.
The film is a tonally uneven, genre-shifting hurricane of a thing, wildly careering off the rails and smashing into everything in its view.
"The Titanic" is now the second-biggest disaster Kate Winslet has ever been associated with. Her new one, The Dressmaker, is like some hellborn alloy of film noir, campy melodrama, “High Plains Drifter” and the Darwin Awards for people who die in moronic accidents.
Home is where the vengeance is.
A stylish Aussie revenge-comedy that is adapted from a novel of the same name. Just superbly built screenplay on a tragedy that occurred some time back, but the movie reveals it only in the third act. About a woman who arrives in a small town where she was born and slowly gains popularity among the young women who seeks her stunning costumes to impress their counterparts. The town divides over her return, but why all the hate is the mystery that the movie going to solve for us in its entire narration.
The location and the settings were fantastic and it brought a western feel because of the Australians hot and humid weather. Kate Winslate was very good, her role simply reminded me Juliette Binoche from 'Chocolat'. I have heard people saying it was emotional, but I did not find it like that. Instead, I had fun watching it, not like I had the open laughs, but felt joy and satisfaction for the time I spent for it. My initial thought was it could be overrated, but after watching it proved I was wrong. This is one of the best Aussie movie I have seen in the recent years.
8/10
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Interesting. Kate Winslet has a tendency to take on odd, complex roles in otherwise peculiar films, doesn't she? Well, The Dressmaker was no exception! Kate was sensational as always, but the movie itself seemed like such a "fantasy" for me to take seriously. This film could be compared to some of Kate's previous "weird yet interesting" movies like Eternal Sunshine and Quills. Films like these (including THE DRESSMAKER), are just so hard to review because although they are works of art in their own right, they're really off the wall and not particularly MY kind of picture, yet I am able to accept them for what they are.
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Kate Winslet plays a woman who returns to her small Australian hometown to reconcile her unfortunate past. Bringing her Paris couture skills back home results in an amusing, but somewhat unrealistic infusion of high fashion in the locals. While she tries to reconcile with her mother (Judy Davis) and get to the bottom of her trauma, she's wooed by the local hunk (Liam Hemsworth). There are elements of quirky comedy that sometimes work and sometimes seem forced. More unusual is the especially grim final hour, which upends most of the film's mischievous promise. The dresses are beautiful and the performances are solid, but be prepared to be taken in a dark direction before it's over.
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Production Company
Screen Australia,
Ingenious Senior Film Fund,
Film Art Media,
White Hot Productions,
Film Victoria,
Soundfirm,
Motion Picture Lighting,
Embankment Films
Release Date Sep 23, 2016
Duration 1 h 59 m
Rating R
Tagline A film about love, revenge and haute couture.
Awards
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards
• 5 Wins & 14 Nominations
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
• 2 Wins & 10 Nominations
Australian Film Critics Association Awards
• 4 Wins & 8 Nominations
