LA LADY HARRIS GOES TO PARIS
Genre: tender and sweet comedy
Director: Anthony Fabian. With Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo, Ellen Thomas, Jason Isaacs, Pamela Pensore
Why not make your dreams come true, since after all it’s “only” a Dior couture dress? The problem is money, because whoever wants it is a London woman who, always waiting for news of her husband who was lost in the war (we are in the mid-1950s), lives as a housekeeper by the hour. But the back pension of her husband, finally declared officially deadand the help of a bookmaker friend (even a little in love) allow her to raise the 500 pounds she has to allocate for the dress.
It’s all OK? Not at all, why arrived at Dior discovers that her problems are just beginningeven if the meeting with an unexpected “blue fairy” with noble ancestry seems to be able to give her a hand.
Roxane Duran (Marguerite), Bertrand Poncet (Monsieur Carré) and Lesley Manville (Mrs. Harris) in a scene from the film (Universal).
Of course, we are in the world of fairy tales, the kind that it is pleasant to be conquered in the cinema. Here it is worth emphasizing, in addition to the great performance of the whole cast (where it stands out, with the excellent protagonist Lesley Manville, a sour and angular Isabelle Huppert in the role of the manager of the maison), the ability to give an amused and sarcastic form to that (social) class difference that not even a Dior dress can completely erase.
For those who still want to indulge in dreams and fairy tales.
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