The Dressmaker

Mmm - this middle aged lady viewer is a bit confused by this one.  Tilly (played by Kate Winslet) returns to the small country town where she grew up in as a young girl called Myrtle, as an adult with her sewing machine in hand.  When she was young, a bully who was taunting her ends dead and she is labeled as a murder and sent away.  Now she is back to find out the truth.

With a group of quirky locals she uses her skills as a dressmaker to make over the local ladies and add a bit of swish to the beige town. 

Kate Winslet is of course gorgeous and I always like her movies, and you can't be sad when you are seeing Liam Hemsworth with his shirt off.  I just found it hard to think of them as the playing the same age in the story.  What could have been a goodish drama just felt a bit over acted and over stylized to me. 2/5