MOVIE REVIEW: All eyes on Lesley Manville in MrsHarrisMovie's tale of fashion and grit.
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
is an adult fairy tale, one in which a middle-aged Englishwoman who scrubs floors for ungrateful clients imagines herself the belle of the ball in a bedazzling Christian Dior creation the color of rubies. A lovely Cinderella fantasy, right? Yes, especially when the titular role of the sweet London cleaning lady with French designer dreams is performed by Lesley Manville.
The script is based on a cherished 1958 novel by Paul Gallico, the first book in a series chronicling the global adventures of his Cockney charwoman, with the dropped “H” in her surname restored to the title here in keeping with a more mainstreamed character. Rather than settle into 1950s middle-class complacency after her husband’s death in the waning years of World War II, the unassuming Mrs.
Though the movie delivers its chuckles and elicits its sighs in a calibrated narrative arc that softens the hard edges of its late bloomer’s life, it would be shortsighted to hastily dismissas sentimental escapist fare that quickly evaporates into the ether of silly romanticism.
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