Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris 2022

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 116 min

genre: historical

theme: fashion

director: Anthony Fabian

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is a 2022 historical comedy-drama film directed and produced by Anthony Fabian, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Carroll Cartwright, Keith Thompson, and Olivia Hetreed. It is the third film adaptation of the 1958 novel Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico. The film stars Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo, Ellen Thomas, Rose Williams, and Jason Isaacs. The film enjoyed strong box office success in the United States arthouse circuit. Manville received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical for her performance. The film also received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design and the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design.

Plot

In London in 1957, Mrs. Ada Harris, a widowed cleaning lady, becomes obsessed with a client's haute couture Dior dress, and longs for a similar dress of her own. After unexpectedly receiving a war widow's pension, she travels to Paris to try to purchase one. She stumbles into a showing of Dior's 10th-anniversary collection and is befriended by André, the Dior accountant, and Natasha, a Dior model. However, the Dior director, Claudine, resents Ada's intrusion into the exclusive world of haute couture and initially declines to accept Ada as a client. Fortunately for Ada, Dior has fallen on hard times and the company eventually agrees to accept a commission for payment in cash. Ada tries to order a red dress, but a high-profile client orders it before her, and she has to make do with a different style, in green. While in Paris for fittings, she stays with André and encourages him to express his affection for Natasha, who shares his interest in existential philosophy. When Claudine sacks several Dior workers for financial reasons, Ada organises a strike and forces Claudine and Christian Dior to listen to André's ideas to modernise the business.

Cast

More details

author	Anthony Fabian Olivia Hetreed
director	Anthony Fabian
editor	Barney Pilling
genre	comedy-drama historical
keywords	christian dior cleaner cleaning lady dior dior dress existential philosophy fashion show hard times haute couture obsess red dress show struggle want war widow widow
musicBy	Rael Jones
producer	Anthony Fabian Guillaume Benski Xavier Marchand
publisher	Focus Features Universal Pictures
recordedAt	Budapest London Paris
theme	fashion