The Power of Fashion”: Kate Winslet's Box Office

Her latest film opens in Argentina on June 9 distributed by Energía. The actress belongs to a small number of artists who, with her mere presence, draw the public to the cinema.

Kate Winslet will always be remembered as the actress who played Rose Dewitt in "Titanic", a film that was her biggest box office success both in Argentina and in the rest of the world. 

Many a viewer will mistakenly identify James Cameron's film as her feature film debut, when in fact it was her sixth feature film.

It was Peter Jackson, the prominent New Zealand director of “The Lord of the Rings”, “King Kong” and “The Hobbit”, who gave him his first screen role in “Celestial Creatures”, a misleading title that actually referred to two perverse adolescent accomplices of a matricide. 

Based on a real event (the Parker-Hulme case) that occurred in New Zealand in 1954, it already made it possible to outline an actress who would on several occasions play devious characters or characters with a very strong personality.

This is the case of “The power of fashion” (“The Dressmaker”), her most recent production in which she gives life to a woman who returns to a small town in Australia with her sewing machine (hence the original title) ready to take revenge on those who hurt him in the past. 

No one better than a filmmaker like the Australian Jocelyn Moorhouse, remembered for several titles released in Argentina: “The test” (“Proof”), (“How to make an American Quilt”) and “En lo deep in the heart (“A Thousand Acres”), to direct it. 

Let us point out that Kate Winslet was born in Great Britain forty years ago, although an important part of her extensive filmography (thirty films) was produced in other countries.