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In the Australian comedy drama “The Dressmaker,” Englishwoman Kate Winslet plays Myrtle “Tilly” Dunnage, a seamstress who returns to Dungatar, the small Australian town of her childhood, where she is ...

Even Kate Winslet carrying her sewing machine like a gunfighter’s pistol can’t redeem this unbearable patchwork of comedy and tragedy There’s something chokingly terrible about this film, with its two ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In “The Dressmaker,” Kate Winslet plays Myrtle “Tilly” Dunnage, a seamstress who returns to her tiny Australian hometown, nursing a lifelong grudge against ...

Kate Winslet makes a defiant entrance in The Dressmaker: announced by foreboding drums, her Myrtle "Tilly" Dunnage steps off a bus in the decaying wheat-belt hamlet of Dungatar like an avenging angel.

A chick flick set in the sticks about a 1950s seamstress: on paper the pitch for The Dressmaker sounds as dry as the apocalyptic landscape in which it is set. Yet there is far more to Jocelyn ...

Next year, Titanic and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind star Kate Winslet will venture into young adult sci-fi territory with a role in the adaptation of Divergent starring Shailene Woodley. But ...