A housekeeper waltzing into Christian Dior and choosing a couture gown may sound like the height of fantasy, but the biggest stretch in Anthony Fabian’s “Mrs.
Harris Goes to Paris” may be all the nice French people she meets along the way.
Starring the inimitable Lesley Manville, in a role that effectively transitions the frequent Mike Leigh collaborator into the Helen Mirren phase of her career, “Mrs.
Harris Goes to Paris” is a charming confection of a middle-aged, middle-class fantasy.Imbuing the lavish period delights of “Mrs.
Maisel” with a lively post-menopausal heroine “Hacks” made trendy, “Mrs.
Harris”The movie begins in 1957 London, where Mrs.
Ada Harris (Manville) has finally received word, after years of holding out hope, that her dear Eddie was killed in action some dozen years prior.
As she goes about her usual routine, cleaning the flats of the entitled rich who regard her as nothing more than reliably good-natured help,
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