{"id":9951,"date":"2022-08-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=9951"},"modified":"2022-10-27T08:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T12:22:52","slug":"weekend-movie-pick-mrs-harris-goes-to-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=9951","title":{"rendered":"Weekend movie pick: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cShe may be weary
Women do get weary
Wearing the same shabby dress \u2026\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Count Mrs. Ava Harris (Lesley Manville), hard-working and underpaid London charwoman, among those weary women, envisioning something more uplifting than the \u201csame shabby dress.\u201d Cleaning the homes of her clients, she sees what couture has to offer and aspires to such loveliness for herself. I was more than a little doubtful about this film\u2014it sounded much too fluffy for me, but . . . it was fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve seen previews for the movie, based on a novel by Paul Gallico, and directed by Anthony Fabian (trailer<\/a>), you\u2019ll have a pretty good idea of what happens, up to a point. Mrs. Harris\u2019s husband died in World War II, which the military finally acknowledges some years later. The windfall of a delayed pension will let her travel to the Dior atelier in Paris and buy the dress of her dreams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The uptight woman managing Dior (Isabelle Huppert) doesn\u2019t want to give Ava the time of day, but the young people on staff take to her unassuming manner, and a gentleman offers himself as her companion for the viewing of the Dior\u2019s tenth anniversary collection. You know she\u2019s going to get a dress, some way or another, but how that\u2019s accomplished is delightful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A perfect, frothy, summer movie. And you get to see a lot of elegant dresses, something I thought The Phantom Thread<\/em> (2017)(also with Lesley Manville as Daniel Day-Lewis\u2019s sister) shortchanged, whereas PBS\u2019s series The Collection<\/em> did not. Don\u2019t think too hard. Just sit back and enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> critics rating: 94%; audiences 93%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cShe may be wearyWomen do get wearyWearing the same shabby dress \u2026\u201d Count Mrs. Ava Harris (Lesley Manville), hard-working and underpaid London charwoman, among those weary women, envisioning something more uplifting than the \u201csame shabby dress.\u201d Cleaning the homes of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Much more fun than I anticipated. Love Mrs. Harris and drool over the couture. Enjoy! ","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[269,272,57,104],"tags":[1239,2012],"class_list":["post-9951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actor","category-comedy","category-movies","category-the-morgue","tag-couture","tag-leslie-manville"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-2Av","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9953,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951\/revisions\/9953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}