What is this relationship? A little later on, walking by the bay, Reynolds reflects on his great luck in finding Alma, and she responds, “Whatever you do, do it carefully.” Alma confides to Cyril her insecurities about her body.
Cyril arrives just in time to write down Alma’s measurements- but not before sniffing Alma all over. Where he does not seduce her, but asks her to stand for him so he can begin to create a dress for her. And finally he invites her to his dressmaking studio in his country home. “If you want to have a staring contest with me, you will lose,” she says.
When the conversation wanes, he looks at her. He talks of various superstitions concerning the making of wedding dresses he tells Alma about the ways one can secrete small objects and messages into handmade clothing. At dinner he does most of the talking, describing his mother, and how she made him the dressmaker he is now, on account of his having made the dress for her second marriage. She gets it just right, and he asks her, Alma, to dinner. Taking Woodcock’s order, she gains assurance she vows to remember his order by heart, and it is enormous. We notice a young waitress at first because she is clumsy. A little later, Woodcock consults with his sister Cyril, a clipped and forceful woman, about how this household figure is to be disposed of.Īnd soon Woodcock is off, like a shot, to Robin Hood’s Bay, driving into the morning, dropping off his powerful car at a local garage, and ordering as he settles down to a table at the Victoria Hotel. At breakfast, a young woman offers him a luscious looking pastry and he looks at her as if she were a gigantic insect. He applies shaving soap with brio, snips his nose and ear hairs with precision (played by Daniel Day-Lewis, he is a well-kempt man of a certain age), pulls up and cuffs his purple socks with vigor. Welcome to the world, then, of Reynolds Woodcock, a couturier and a man of meticulous routine, as the following montage of his toilette attest.
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