Mrs Harris Goes to Paris

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Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris is a delightfully old-fashioned piece of cinema and features a luminous performance by Lesley Manville.

Harris Goes To Paris is surprisingly full of ideas and themes, sometimes so full it can’t properly explore them. We all love a bit of retail therapy; buying something nice makes us feel good about ourselves and it’s this exact, very relatable and recognisable sentiment that powers Mrs. The strongest element in Fabian’s film is taking the invisible women in history and making them visible. One day, she notices a beautiful Dior dress in a client’s wardrobe. She patiently still waits for her husband Eddie to return from the war which has been over for a decade. Something that is a little frivolous and not necessarily needed; but we just want it, just for us.

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Possibly the makers thought wrongly that international audiences may not be quite au fait with the cockney connotations attached to Ada’s character, but Gallico’s original title would have had more of an impact. There she learns that all isn’t well chez Dior and that behind the facade of riches and glamour, what the fashion house really needs is more people like her. As luck would have it, on her arrival at Maison Dior, Ada stumbles into an exclusive 10th anniversary showing for the Paris elite.

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Just as everything starts to go wrong, then everything starts to go right as the film starts to tell us that good things happen to good people. Amid all the drabness and drudgery of her humdrum life, Ada suddenly wants a piece of glamour way, way beyond her means. And that’s when Mrs Harris dares to dream, and she certainly dreams big.

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I think the key was for me to create an absolutely grounded and real Ada so that we can really tell her story and get the audience to like her just because of her genuine warmth and loveliness. [subscribe now](http://radiotimes.com/magazine-subscription?utm_term=evergreen-article) and get the next 12 issues for only £1. And I mean, the script could have gone in the very wrong direction. Whatever genre of film I'm doing, I want that person to be believable. And so I would imagine that it would be and so I imagine that they will want to make some more – but there's nothing definite about that at the moment." And so much good stuff comes out of that, you know, the knock-on effect of how she is, is palpable in the film.” So I think it's set to not only get lovely reviews because it's done so well in the States, but I think it's set to make money as well. "Because I think that would have been a bit of a turn-off for me. I mean, it's yet to open anywhere else in the world – it's about to. "There is a sequel novel called Mrs Harris becomes an MP," she said. "So that always interests distributors and filmmakers, doesn't it? "I think there are because there are several sequels [to the book]," she said.

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The conflict divides Chickie’s family home – his sister Christine (Ruby Ashbourne Serkis) is vociferously opposed – but he wholeheartedly buys into the patriotic fervour. As a cinematic plot-driver and character development crutch, fashion is often the fashion, darling. you get the picture. Who can forget the Pretty Woman boutique scenes, and those crusty gals who made a big mistake (huge) that became one of the most iconic moments in 90s cinema? And, you can’t spell The Devil Wears Prada without, well... And for Hollywood’s finest, a stint as the face of an exquisite yet somewhat obnoxiously priced scent may as well be awarded in a doggy bag with those coveted boulevard stars.

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Director Anthony Fabian embraces escapism in his adaptation of Paul Gallico's novel. Review by Markie Robson-Scott.

Nevertheless, back in London, she hands in her notice to Lady Dant and tells her that she will no longer be treated like scum and that the age of deference is over. She even does a stint sewing on buttons in the atelier and you half-hope that she might up sticks and embark on a new Parisian career. Still, the action is pacy enough and fine-featured Lesley Manville is a wonderful Ada Harris, the Battersea cleaning lady with a heart of gold who falls in love with a Dior dress owned by one of her employers, the horrid Lady Dant (Anna Chancellor), who never has any cash on hand. But her jolly friend Archie (Jason Isaacs) saves the day, so, combined with a few coincidental windfalls that include her late husband’s back-dated pension (she gets the news, very late in the day, that he was killed in action, perhaps prompting her to honour his memory by pursuing a dream), she finds herself with enough dosh for a plane ride to Paris and a visit to Dior at Avenue Montaigne to get her hands on one of those frocks. It’s a mix of Mary Poppins and Emily in Paris (one of its stars, Lucas Bravo, plays a bespectacled, quasi-intellectual accountant here). Mrs Harris Goes to Paris, based on Paul Gallico’s 1958 novel, is preposterous.

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