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Many who reviewed this film had complaints about technical snags and this unfortunately cants the star rating. Some felt it depressing. The film itself is pretty great and wasn't depressing to this viewer as it has a delicious mix of redemption for a mother and daughter who were cruelly treated and then there is the revenge! The setting for fabulous and quirky haute couture gowns and dresses is a wizened and isolated tiny town in the outback of Australia that sports very large dead trees and dusty streets throughout. One review says that this is not a fairy tale, but in most ways, it surely is. It is a terrific blend of the liberating qualities of truth and justice, humorous defeats of wrong doers, the tragic beauty who believes herself cursed and the astoundingly handsome young lover who helps to dispel the nature of the curse, the pitfalls of vanity that have captured the cowardly members of the town and the magical transformation of those who could be seen as unattractive by the simple donning wonderful clothes. Judy Davis is hilarious and Kate Winslet, well isn't she just always fantastic? I'll watch it again just to indulge in the eyeful of interesting contrasts.