The Dressmaker (2015)

On a recent trip where I watched little and read less, I finally managed to watch this gem of a movie.  Pay no attention to the reviews that state otherwise, this is a good movie where Kate Winslet is altogether glamorous.
She plays Myrtle “Tilly” Dunnage, who has returned to the rural Australian community that once banished her as a child for accidentally killing the town bully. She is ostensibly there to care for her dotty crank of a mother, Mad Molly, who has been living in pungent squalor. But Tilly also is clearly out to right some wrongs while shedding a light on a tragic incident from the past that she can’t quite recall.
Naturally, evil also lurks in Dungatar, as it does in these relatively lawless frontier towns, and it takes several forms, including a hunchback town pharmacist and wife abuser who greets Tilly by hissing, “Your mother’s a slut and you’re a bastard,” the rumor-mongering female schoolteacher whose lies caused Tilly to be forced out of town and the womanizing councilman who torments his clean-freak wife.  Tillie loses in love but she does manage to exact her revenge on a number of levels and strides out of town to a better place.