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Hugo Weaving in The Dressmaker

2015

Hugo Weaving in The Dressmaker

2015

  • NFSA ID3RDJ0PER
  • TypeFilm
  • MediumMoving Image
  • FormStill Image
  • GenresComedy, Drama
  • Year2015

Arriving in the dead of night at the remote wheat-belt town of Dungatar, Tilly Dunnage (Kate Winslet) stages a strange and defiant homecoming in The Dressmaker (Jocelyn Moorhouse, Australia, 2015).

Farrat (Hugo Weaving), the local policeman, recognises her dress before he recognises her: 'Myrtle Dunnage, you grew up' he says breathlessly.

The portraits capture the atmosphere of this gothic mystery filmed in a purpose-built, one-street town in the You Yangs, in Victoria.

Stills photographer Ben King grabbed the opportunity to do a special photoshoot with the leading actors in the beautiful evening light while the cast and crew were waiting for the sun to set for night filming.

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Film Art Media

Arriving in the dead of night at the remote wheat-belt town of Dungatar, Tilly Dunnage (Kate Winslet) stages a strange and defiant homecoming in The Dressmaker (Jocelyn Moorhouse, Australia, 2015).

Farrat (Hugo Weaving), the local policeman, recognises her dress before he recognises her: 'Myrtle Dunnage, you grew up' he says breathlessly.

The portraits capture the atmosphere of this gothic mystery filmed in a purpose-built, one-street town in the You Yangs, in Victoria.

Stills photographer Ben King grabbed the opportunity to do a special photoshoot with the leading actors in the beautiful evening light while the cast and crew were waiting for the sun to set for night filming.

Courtesy of
Film Art Media
  • Photographer
    Ben King
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