Based on the best-selling novel by Rosalie Ham, this bittersweet, comedy-drama is set in early 1950s 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, backward, 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 steals the show here with many references to Gloria Swanson and Sunset Boulevard) and unexpectedly falls in love with the pure-hearted Teddy (Liam Hemsworth), but armed with her sewing machine and incredible sense of style, she transforms the women of the town and in so doing gets sweet revenge on those who did her wrong. Enormously good fun.
Australia 2015 Jocelyn Moorhouse 118m
