‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’ with dreams of owning Dior gown
By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
In “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” a middle-aged woman of very limited means in post-World War II London dreams of owning a Christian Dior gown. The film, which opens in theaters nationwide Friday, is a colorful, romantic fairy tale starring Lesley Manville as Mrs. Harris, a war widow who only discovers Dior while cleaning one of her clients’ homes, and Isabelle Huppert as a snobbish Dior employee who is flustered at the proposition. It is, director Anthony Fabian hopes, a film that will delight and inspire audiences not just for its aspirational qualities but for the dignity with which it treats its leading lady.
