Criticism of ‘Mrs Harris’s trip to Paris’, when optimism works

Criticism of ‘Mrs Harris’s trip to Paris’, when optimism works

Anthony Fabian opts for the tone of the ‘Paddington’ films, an aesthetic close to Wes Anderson and the vindictive spirit of Mike Leigh.

    You have to rub your eyes well before the evidence that the optimistic protagonist of this sweet fable is the same Lesley Manville who played the cruel matriarch who put Kevin Costner and Diane Lane in check in ‘One of us’. She is the movie. His Ada Harris has the right bonhomie, but she knows how to get serious when necessary. A success. Another, the script does not make everything very easy. One more, the character never intends to stop being herself, to dress up. She always presents herself as she is, that is her strength. Her only desire is to possess something beautiful.

    It is ironic that the same people who would be willing to spend huge sums to get hold of a stolen work of art, which they could only enjoy in the privacy of their homes, reproach her for insisting on buying a dress that is beyond their ability to show off. social, just for the treat. That is the key to the film, whose adaptation transcends its literary origin. Anthony Fabian opts for the tone of the ‘Paddington’ films, an aesthetic close to Wes Anderson and the vindictive spirit of Mike Leigh.

    To regain faith that optimism can work in life too

    The best: legitimizes the pleasure of treating yourself just because.

    The worst: the secondary characters are wasted.

    DATA SHEET

    Address: Anthony Fabian Distribution: Lesley Manville, Jason Isaacs, Anna Chancellor, Isabelle Huppert Country: United Kingdom Year: 2022 Release date: 9–12-2022 Gender: comedy, drama Script: Carroll Cartwright, Anthony Fabian, Olivia Hetreed, Keith Thompson Duration: 92 min.

    Synopsis: New adaptation of the novel by Paul Gallico. It tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady (Manville) in 1950s London, who falls madly in love with a Dior dress. She decides that she should get one.

    Source: Fotogramas

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