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“You can’t keep anything secret here,” said the old woman. “Everybody knows everything about everyone but no one ever tittle tattles because then someone else’ll tell on them. But you don’t matter – it’s open slather on outcasts.”
'The Dressmaker is a bittersweet tragi-comedy about a glamorous young woman who returns, after many years in Europe, to her small home town in rural Australia in order to right some wrongs from the past. When Tilly comes home, she not only heals her ailing mother, but with her sewing machine, and haute couture style, transforms the women of the town in such a way that she gets sweet revenge on those who did her wrong. She also falls unexpectedly in love, which leads to her greatest loss, and her most destructive deed.' (Producer's abstract)
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It's a Golden Age for Julia
2016
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— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 1 May 2016; (p. 84) -
Box Office Bonanza
2016
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 22 January 2016; (p. 34) -
The 100 Best Australian Films of the New Millenium
2016
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 22 September 2016; -
2015 Australian Cinema Goes Commercial
2016
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— Appears in: Metro Magazine , Winter vol. 189 no. 2016; (p. 42-50) -
Dressed for Film Success
2016
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 August 2016; (p. 26)
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Nine Australian Movies to Watch in 2015
2015
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review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 6 January 2015;
— Review of Mad Max : Fury Road 2015 single work film/TV ; The Dressmaker 2015 single work film/TV ; The Blinky Bill Movie 2015 single work film/TV ; Paper Planes 2014 single work film/TV ; Sam Klemke’s Time Machine 2015 single work film/TV ; Strangerland 2015 single work film/TV ; Kill Me Three Times 2014 single work film/TV ; Oddball and the Penguins 2015 single work film/TV ; The Daughter 2015 single work film/TV -
Dressed for Success
2015
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 September 2015; (p. 8-9)
— Review of The Dressmaker 2015 single work film/TV -
The Dressmaker Review – A Batty, Fancy-frocked Revenge Story
2015
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— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 17 October 2015;
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Sharpened Tongue Cuts Close to Home
2015
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— Appears in: The Age , 22 October 2015; (p. 35)
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Frivolous Fun
2015
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— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 25 October 2015; (p. 10)
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Back to the Bush to Find a Blockbuster
2013
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 10 August 2013; (p. 36) -
Back to the Outback
2013
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 August 2013; (p. 57) -
Short Cuts
2014
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18 December 2014; (p. 30) -
First in Best Dress
2014
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 18 December 2014; (p. 33) -
Our New Queens of the Desert are Dressed to Impress
2015
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 May 2015; (p. 5)
Awards
- 2016 nominated AFCA Film Awards — Best Director
- 2016 winner AFCA Film Awards — Best Screenplay
- 2016 nominated AFCA Film Awards — Best Film
- 2015 winner Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — People's Choice Award for Favourite Australian Film
- 2015 shortlisted Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Film