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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
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Wikipedia article
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| director = Anthony Fabian
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| cinematography = Felix Wiedemann
| editing = Barney Pilling
| music = Rael Jones
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| runtime = 115 minutes
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| budget = $13 million
| gross = $10.3 million
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'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.
Plot
In 1957 London, Mrs. Ada Harris, a widowed cleaning lady, becomes obsessed with one client's 'haute couture' Dior dress; it inspires her to buy her own Dior dress. After suddenly receiving a war-widow's pension, she travels to Paris to do so. She stumbles into a showing of Dior's 10th anniversary collection and is befriended by Andr, 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 will pay in cash, they reluctantly agree to make her a dress. While in Paris for fittings, she stays with Andr and encourages him to express his affection for Natashawho shares his interest in existential philosophy.
When Claudine is forced to fire several Dior's workers for financial reasons, Ada organises a strike and forces Claudine and Christian Dior to hear Andr's ideas to modernise and make the business profitable.
Ada returns to London with her dress. She loans it to her client, Pamela, a struggling actress, who wears it to an event. It catches fire and is ruined. Ada's Dior friends read about the disaster in the newspaper and send her another dress, one she initially coveted more than the purchased one.
Cast
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.
Principal photography began in October 2020. Filming took place over 40 days in Budapest, before production moved to London and Paris.
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. It
was released theatrically in the United States on 15 July 2022. It was originally scheduled to be released on 6 May. The film is set to be released in the United Kingdom on 30 September 2022, in Hungary on 6 October 2022, and in France on 2 November 2022.
Reception
Box office
In the United States, the film made $2 million from 980 theaters in its opening weekend; 44% of its audience were women over the age of 55. The film eventually grossed more than $10 million in the United States theatrically. 'Deadline Hollywood' described that the film's box office performance as "strong."Critical response
Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.References
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