Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)

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   Shingwauk

   I had read the book a while ago and I was interested in seeing this film. It was disappointing as I thought it underplayed Mrs. Harris true characteristics. In the book she is heartwarming and at times naïve which draws people towards her. I know that films rarely follow the events in the book but the theme and essence of the main character was wanting. 1 year 8 months ago
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   Siskoid

   Featuring a very cute performance from Lesley Manville, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, in a cute story about a cute housekeeper in the 1950s whose dream is to get a Dior dress, where she meets cute French people who she helps get together, while being treated very cutely as a working class hero at the fashion house. This is so cute as to be cloying, and elements like her guardian angel and Paris in bloom give it an old-fashioned atmosphere. If this had been made IN the 1950s, it would feel right and home and have a lot of charm. In this day and age, it feels manipulative, corny and well, like an extended commercial for Dior (this trend of making movies about products, possibly financed by those companies, is surely the bane of my movie-watching existence) in which Mrs. Harris somehow originates the prêt à porter revolution. Some - perhaps many! - will enjoy it as a fairy tale in the style of the Golden Age of Hollywood, but its obsession with happy endings means that every reversal is obviously going to be undone, and the films gets progressively more predictable. Even the snobbish villain played by a wasted Isabelle Huppert isn't much of one. Too nice! 7 months 1 week ago
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   boulderman

   It's fine but nothing special and I think it could have been shorter 6/10 11 months 3 weeks ago

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