Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Anthony Fabian
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  • Anthony Fabian
  • Xavier Marchand
  • Guillaume Benski
Screenplay by <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Based on Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
by Paul Gallico
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Music by Rael Jones
Cinematography Felix Wiedemann
Edited by Barney Pilling
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Release dates
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  • 11 July 2022 (2022-07-11) (Paris)
  • 30 September 2022 (2022-09-30) (United Kingdom)
  • 6 October 2022 (2022-10-06) (Hungary)
  • 2 November 2022 (2022-11-02) (France)
Running time
 115 minutes
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  • United Kingdom
  • France
  • Hungary[2][3]
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Budget $13 million[6]
Box office $10 million[7][8]

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 result in the United States arthouse circuit.[9]

Plot

In 1957 London, Mrs. Ada Harris, a widowed cleaning lady, becomes obsessed with a haute couture Dior dress of one of her clients; it inspires her to buy her own Dior dress. After suddenly receiving a war-widow's pension, she embarks on an adventure to Paris to do so. 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.

Dior has fallen on hard financial times and because Ada is willing to pay in cash, they reluctantly agree to make a dress for her. While she remains 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 is forced to fire several of Dior's workers due to financial constraints, Ada organises a strike and forces Claudine and Christian Dior to listen to André's ideas to modernise the business and make it profitable.

Ada returns to London with her dress. She loans it to one of her clients, Pamela, a struggling actress. Pamela wears it to an event where it catches fire and is ruined. Her friends at Dior read of the disaster in the newspaper and send her another dress, one she had initially coveted more than the dress she actually purchased.

Cast

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Production

In October 2020, it was announced Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista and Lucas Bravo joined the cast of the film, with Anthony Fabian directing and producing the film, from a screenplay he co-wrote alongside Caroll Cartwright, Keith Thompson and Olivia Hetreed, based upon the novel Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico, with Manville set to executive produce.[10][11]

Principal photography began in October 2020.[12] Filming took place over 40 days in Budapest, before production moved to London and Paris.[3]

Release

In March 2021, Focus Features acquired worldwide distribution rights to Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris for approximately $15 million and will distribute the film in the United States, while parent company Universal Pictures will distribute internationally.[1] It was released theatrically in the United States on 15 July 2022.[13] It was originally scheduled to be released on 6 May.[14] The film is set to be released in the United Kingdom on 30 September 2022,[15] in Hungary on 6 October 2022,[16] and in France on 2 November 2022.[17]

Reception

Box office

In the United States, the film made $2 million from 980 theaters in its opening weekend; 44% of its audience was women over the age of 55.[18] As of August 13, 2022, the film had grossed more than $8.4 million theatrically in the United States.[19] Deadline Hollywood described that the film's United States box office performance was 'strong'.[9]

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 95% of 130 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Led by a luminous Lesley Manville, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is a good old-fashioned story charmingly told."[20] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 70 out of 100, based on 33 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[21] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[18]

References

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