Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) Review

In London in the 1950s a war widowed cleaning lady Ada Harris falls in love with a Dior dress that belongs to one of the women she works for and sets out to buy her very own! Doing all she can to save up the £500!

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Ada Harris has been longing for closure for her husband who did not return home from World War II and has been waiting and hoping for him to have just been a little bit lost and make his way back to her in London. Unfortunately that was not to be the case and she eventually gets the news she had been dreading the actual date of his death, on hearing that as a viewer it made me think and wonder how many women were in that position following both world wars and always hoped that the young man who left her would actually come back.

The Dior dress becomes her target and travelling to Paris, we get to see how she saves and doesn’t use the heating in order to save money that way as well. Not wanting to go out for drinks with her friend Violet which was something she enjoyed all for that amazing goal.

However, when actually getting to Paris and Dior it was never going to be easy when different people who are wealthy do not want a “common” woman from London to have a Dior dress, seeing the brand as very exclusive. Madame Avallon being the main person this way and quite frankly horrible to Ada from the first moment she sees her! Sabotaging the dress Ada wanted by picking it herself and demanding no one else has the same dress as she does.

As well as her dream dress Ada is such a good and pure person which means she befriends Natasha a model who is just not satisfied with the life she is currently living and then Andre an accountant who is pretty much in love with Natasha and this is something Ada cannot help herself with. Especially when Andre lets her stay at his while having the dress fittings over the week.

Mrs Harris Goes to Paris is a truly lovely story which you will not fail to enjoy and fully find yourself just thinking and hoping for the best. I guess it shows in parts that good things will eventually happen for you if you are a good person and if you are not a nice person that karma will eventually catch up with you. Surely that alone is a nice thing to think about, even if when you’re going through tough times it might not feel that way at all.

It’s actually one of those lovely films that reassures you that nice, selfless people really do exist and if you just happen to know someone like that protect and appreciate them as much as possible. The way it is all set up with feel for Ada and are fully on her side, so when people do things against her it is easy to get annoyed. Yes Pamela Penrose and Lady Dant, I am talking about you two horrible people!

Performance wise Lesley Manville was just a perfect choice for the role and is a joy to watch as usual, but maybe even more so with such a lovely character to take on. Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista and Lucas Bravo taking on the supporting characters in France were all so very good. Then we had Ellen Thomas and Jason Isaacs in London, I mean I feel we could have easily done with more of the latter!

I have tried my very best to complete the review before mentioning that the Angela Lansbury made for TV movie has always been one of my favourites and I felt as though this was a lovely version as well. So if you had no idea that this was not an original please search for that one as well!