ODEON Magazine September/October 2015 | Page 10

Beware the lady with a sewing machine and a revenge plot DRESSMAKER You’ll not have seen haute couture used in a revenge plot before ith an impressive list of actors playing the leads in this – Kate Winslet (Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind), Liam Hemsworth (The Hunger Games Trilogy) and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix Trilogy) – you know you’re in good hands. Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Rosalie Ham, the story follows femme fatale and dressmaker Tilly Dunnage (Winslet), as she returns to her Australian hometown. She arrives with her sewing machine, a haute couture style, and ardent plans to exact sweet revenge upon those who have wronged her in the past (while at the same time tra