The Dressmaker (2015)
In this quirky Australian drama, a woman in the 1950s returns to her small hometown with a sewing machine and a grudge. When she was a child, many people in the town either participated in a great wrong done to her or stood idly by as it happened, and she wants to make them pay. While parts of the movie appear very fluffy and silly, it’s always clear there’s a very dark tone ready to surface at any moment.
I didn’t make it through the entire movie, as it became too strange for me to enjoy. Kate Winslet attends a rugby match and takes off her clothes, glad when the players are distracted enough to crash into each other. That’s her revenge? She gives a homely girl a makeover only to show her ugliness at the right time so her boyfriend doesn’t want her anymore. That’s her revenge? Obviously not, and these events are just building to something more sinister later in the film. I didn’t have the patience to see what sort of evil revenge scheme she really had in mind, but if you like those types of movies, you can try it out. It was just far too weird for me.
Kiddy Warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. However, due to adult subject matter, I wouldn’t let my kids watch it.
More Kate Winslet movies here!
I didn’t make it through the entire movie, as it became too strange for me to enjoy. Kate Winslet attends a rugby match and takes off her clothes, glad when the players are distracted enough to crash into each other. That’s her revenge? She gives a homely girl a makeover only to show her ugliness at the right time so her boyfriend doesn’t want her anymore. That’s her revenge? Obviously not, and these events are just building to something more sinister later in the film. I didn’t have the patience to see what sort of evil revenge scheme she really had in mind, but if you like those types of movies, you can try it out. It was just far too weird for me.
Kiddy Warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. However, due to adult subject matter, I wouldn’t let my kids watch it.
More Kate Winslet movies here!