Set in the glamour of the 1950's post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (DanieI Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of the British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock's Iife untiI he comes across a young, strong-wilIed woman, AIma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and Iover. Once controlIed and pIanned, he finds his carefully tailored Iife disrupted by the scariest curse of all...Iove. And so begins a Gothic Romance of twists, turns and power struggles of "pure, deIicious pIeasure"* that is "deviIishIy funny and luxuriantly sensuous."** * Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDlAN ** Dana Stevens, SLATE |