Next week we are going to have the first Irenebrination Book Club meeting, so, while we wait for it, let's schedule the next appointment. For the second meeting we will read The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham.
In the book, after spending many years working in Melbourne, Spain, and France, the main character Tilly returns to Dungatar, her small town in Australia from where she was banished when she was just ten years old and was involved in an accident that indirectly caused the death of young bully Stewart Pettyman. Her main plan seems to be checking upon her frail and mentally unstable mother Molly, but she eventually decides to stay. Though hated by most people in Dungatar, Tilly manages to cast a fashionable spell on the local women (and on some men as well...) thanks to her dressmaking skills.
For the first Book Club meeting we decided we will analyse a book and the film taken from it, and we will do the same with this novel. Published in 2000 in Australia, the book was adapted for the screen by Jocelyn Moorhouse who shot it entirely in Victoria.
The movie featured Kate Winslet as Tilly, Australian two-time Oscar nominee Judy Davis as Molly, Liam Hemsworth as Teddy and Hugo Weaving as Sergeant Farrat. The costumes were designed by Marion Boyce, while Margot Wilson created the gowns and dresses donned by Winslet and echoing the styles of Parisian ateliers and in particular designs by the great masters of couture such as Vionnet, Balmain, Balenciaga and Dior.
The second Irenebrination Book Club meeting will take place on Zoom on November 26th at 6.00 p.m. CET. You can read the book (or watch the film) in its original language or in translation, but the meeting will be in English. To register and receive the link to take part in the meeeting, write to the email address [email protected], sending your name and surname. The second Book Club meeting will be open to max 12 people, so register as soon as possible.
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