The Dressmaker Australia Day Openair Screenings

Overview

This Australia Day, meet Australian cinema's new heroine. Myrtle 'Tilly' Dunnage (Kate Winslet) wouldn't consider herself a star at anything other than making stunning dresses, nor does she try to conquer anything but her own doubts and cruel small-town gossip. However, she's the guiding force in a film that warmly embraces local flavour, deftly navigates everything from drama to mystery to comedy, and serves up an offbeat, engaging time at the movies.

Tilly is the titular figure in writer/director Jocelyn Moorhouse's The Dressmaker, which charts Tilly's homecoming to outback Australia after being driven away as a child. And specially for Australia Day, two openair cinemas are showing it in Sydney — St George Openair Cinema and Moonlight Cinema.

Read our review — we bloody loved it.