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But everyone else in the film is either gently patronized, like Gertrude (Sarah Snook), the girl too humble to land the boy of her dreams until Tilly gives her a head-to-toe makeover, or demonized, like the gossipy women and mean schoolteacherwith the on-the-nose name of Miss Harridiene (Kerry Fox)who afflict this ostensibly feminist fable with a queasy-making tinge of misogyny