The Irish festival runs from February 22 to March 2.
Dublin International Film Festival has unveiled its first programme highlights, with French star Isabelle Huppert to receive Diff’s career achievement accolade, the Volta Award, and That They May Face The Rising Sun set to close the festival.
Huppert’s career has spanned six decades, from early roles such as Claude Goretta’s The Lacemaker, for which she received the Bafta most promising newcomer award, to recent cinema roles including Mia Hansen-Love’s Things To Come, Michael Haneke’s Happy End, Neil Jordan’s Greta, Anthony Fabian Mrs Harris Goes To...
Dublin International Film Festival has unveiled its first programme highlights, with French star Isabelle Huppert to receive Diff’s career achievement accolade, the Volta Award, and That They May Face The Rising Sun set to close the festival.
Huppert’s career has spanned six decades, from early roles such as Claude Goretta’s The Lacemaker, for which she received the Bafta most promising newcomer award, to recent cinema roles including Mia Hansen-Love’s Things To Come, Michael Haneke’s Happy End, Neil Jordan’s Greta, Anthony Fabian Mrs Harris Goes To...
- 12/11/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Locarno Film Festival runs August 2-12.
French actor Lambert Wilson has been named president of the jury at the upcoming Locarno Film Festival (August 2-12).
The prolific actor and his fellow jurors will award the summertime Swiss festival’s Golden Leopard Pardo d’oro to one of the yet-to-be-ennounced titles in the festival’s international competition.
Locarno’s artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro said Wilson, who has worked with top French filmmakers during his decades long career including Claude Chabrol, Jacques Demy, Andrzej Żuławski and André Techiné, “has left a lasting mark on European and international cinema” and called him “ versatile performer,...
French actor Lambert Wilson has been named president of the jury at the upcoming Locarno Film Festival (August 2-12).
The prolific actor and his fellow jurors will award the summertime Swiss festival’s Golden Leopard Pardo d’oro to one of the yet-to-be-ennounced titles in the festival’s international competition.
Locarno’s artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro said Wilson, who has worked with top French filmmakers during his decades long career including Claude Chabrol, Jacques Demy, Andrzej Żuławski and André Techiné, “has left a lasting mark on European and international cinema” and called him “ versatile performer,...
- 5/18/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Body Double (Brian De Palma)
When rewatching Body Double for the third time, its most striking element was, as on my first viewing, Craig Wasson’s performance. As central character Jake Scully, Wasson turns his conventionally attractive looks into an endlessly fascinating nebbishness and awkwardness. In an early scene, Jake simply walks to his car and jumps in the driver’s seat, yet Wasson manages to turn this casual action into one of the most amusing instances of purposefully bad acting. This unquestionably intended ridiculousness in fact informs an audience of the approach required by the entire film: just as it is difficult to take this ludicrous failed actor and naïve man seriously, Body Double itself is better enjoyed with a grain of salt.
Body Double (Brian De Palma)
When rewatching Body Double for the third time, its most striking element was, as on my first viewing, Craig Wasson’s performance. As central character Jake Scully, Wasson turns his conventionally attractive looks into an endlessly fascinating nebbishness and awkwardness. In an early scene, Jake simply walks to his car and jumps in the driver’s seat, yet Wasson manages to turn this casual action into one of the most amusing instances of purposefully bad acting. This unquestionably intended ridiculousness in fact informs an audience of the approach required by the entire film: just as it is difficult to take this ludicrous failed actor and naïve man seriously, Body Double itself is better enjoyed with a grain of salt.
- 3/17/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Producer Guillaume Benski explains how the hit film came to be made.
“It wasn’t supposed to be this big,” says producer Guillaume Benski of the international box office success of Anthony Fabian’s Mrs Harris Goes To Paris, starring Lesley Manville and Isabelle Huppert.
The English-language film, produced by Benski’s Paris and London-based Superbe Films, with Xavier Marchand’s MoonRiver, has grossed approximately 30m worldwide since its release in July 2022. It opened first in North America via Focus Features, grossing 10.3m. Universal Pictures then opened Mrs Harris around the world where it has performed particularly well in the...
“It wasn’t supposed to be this big,” says producer Guillaume Benski of the international box office success of Anthony Fabian’s Mrs Harris Goes To Paris, starring Lesley Manville and Isabelle Huppert.
The English-language film, produced by Benski’s Paris and London-based Superbe Films, with Xavier Marchand’s MoonRiver, has grossed approximately 30m worldwide since its release in July 2022. It opened first in North America via Focus Features, grossing 10.3m. Universal Pictures then opened Mrs Harris around the world where it has performed particularly well in the...
- 1/10/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2022, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
As with every year, 2022 began with me catching up with an exceptional film I’d missed before I submitted my previous “best of” list, and ended with me belatedly seeing another excellent work that was more than worthy of inclusion. My apologies to Davy Chou, whose Return to Seoul would have been a fixture here if I’d have gotten round to it sooner.
Although not quite the embarrassment of cinematic riches that 2021 was, my honorable mentions all show that the art form is still in rude health following the pandemic, with several legendary filmmakers producing some of their most rewarding works in recent memory, many of which narrowly missed inclusion in my personal top 10. David Cronenberg recontextualized his older body horror work for an eco-parable concerned...
As with every year, 2022 began with me catching up with an exceptional film I’d missed before I submitted my previous “best of” list, and ended with me belatedly seeing another excellent work that was more than worthy of inclusion. My apologies to Davy Chou, whose Return to Seoul would have been a fixture here if I’d have gotten round to it sooner.
Although not quite the embarrassment of cinematic riches that 2021 was, my honorable mentions all show that the art form is still in rude health following the pandemic, with several legendary filmmakers producing some of their most rewarding works in recent memory, many of which narrowly missed inclusion in my personal top 10. David Cronenberg recontextualized his older body horror work for an eco-parable concerned...
- 1/4/2023
- by Alistair Ryder
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Famke Janssen (X-Men franchise) and Rose Williams (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris) will topline Locked In, a contemporary psychological thriller from Netflix, which is currently in production in London and the UK. Others in the cast include Alex Hassell (Violent Night), Finn Cole (Animal Kingdom) and Anna Friel (Monarch).
The first feature directed by award-winner Nour Wazzi (The Last Bus) pits the unhappy newlywed Lina (Williams) against her brittle, damaged mother-in-law, Katherine (Janssen). An affair sets Lina onto a journey of secrecy, betrayal and murder — and a plot to seemingly destroy her. But who is the real victim, and who can she truly trust?
Rowan Joffé wrote the script. Nicky Bentham (The Duke) is producing for Neon Films, with Alison Jackson exec producing for Gaumont.
Best known for starring roles in the Taken and X-Men film franchises, Janssen has...
The first feature directed by award-winner Nour Wazzi (The Last Bus) pits the unhappy newlywed Lina (Williams) against her brittle, damaged mother-in-law, Katherine (Janssen). An affair sets Lina onto a journey of secrecy, betrayal and murder — and a plot to seemingly destroy her. But who is the real victim, and who can she truly trust?
Rowan Joffé wrote the script. Nicky Bentham (The Duke) is producing for Neon Films, with Alison Jackson exec producing for Gaumont.
Best known for starring roles in the Taken and X-Men film franchises, Janssen has...
- 12/21/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Distributed by Universal Pictures, ‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’ is a historical comedy drama arriving at your nearest theatres on November 4. Directed and produced by Anthony Fabian, the movie has a stellar cast composed of Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Ellen Thomas, Lucas Bravo, and Alba Baptista in pivotal roles.
Set in the 1950s, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris tells the story of Mrs. Ada Harris (Lesley Manville), a widowed cleaning lady who dreams of buying herself a stunning Dior dress. When she receives her war widow pension, she sets out to the city of haute couture – Paris.
Being a dreamer and a passionate strong woman, Mrs. Harris tries to find the light and ends up creating some of her own. Showcasing the high end couture fashion brand Dior, the movie sheds light on many beautiful, intricate gowns which would make any woman want to have one just like Mrs.
Set in the 1950s, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris tells the story of Mrs. Ada Harris (Lesley Manville), a widowed cleaning lady who dreams of buying herself a stunning Dior dress. When she receives her war widow pension, she sets out to the city of haute couture – Paris.
Being a dreamer and a passionate strong woman, Mrs. Harris tries to find the light and ends up creating some of her own. Showcasing the high end couture fashion brand Dior, the movie sheds light on many beautiful, intricate gowns which would make any woman want to have one just like Mrs.
- 11/2/2022
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
Universal starts ‘Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris’, Curzon has ‘Flux Gourmet’.
Paramount horror Smile heads the new releases at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, looking to benefit from a marketing campaign that has combined innovative and traditional methods.
US filmmaker Parker Finn’s feature debut is adapted from the idea used in his 2020 short Laura Hasn’t Slept, which won a special jury award at SXSW.
Opening in 518 sites, Smile stars Sosie Bacon as a doctor who witnesses a traumatic incident involving a patient; then begins to experience frightening occurrences that she can’t explain, involving smiling faces. Kyle Gallner,...
Paramount horror Smile heads the new releases at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, looking to benefit from a marketing campaign that has combined innovative and traditional methods.
US filmmaker Parker Finn’s feature debut is adapted from the idea used in his 2020 short Laura Hasn’t Slept, which won a special jury award at SXSW.
Opening in 518 sites, Smile stars Sosie Bacon as a doctor who witnesses a traumatic incident involving a patient; then begins to experience frightening occurrences that she can’t explain, involving smiling faces. Kyle Gallner,...
- 9/30/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Who would’ve guessed one of the most charming films of the year has one of the most charming ensembles. It’s something we gleefully discovered when taking part in the press junket for Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, as we spoke to cast-members Lucas Bravo, Ellen Thomas and Lambert Wilson. We also had the pleasure in speaking to the director Anthony Fabian, as we discuss the film and its themes, we talk dresses, Dior, London, Paris – and of course, Lesley Manville. You can watch all of our interviews in their entirety below.
Lucas Bravo
Ellen Thomas
Lambert Wilson
Anthony Fabian
Synopsis
In 1950s London, a widowed cleaning lady falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, deciding she must have one of her own. After working to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris that will change not only her own...
Lucas Bravo
Ellen Thomas
Lambert Wilson
Anthony Fabian
Synopsis
In 1950s London, a widowed cleaning lady falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, deciding she must have one of her own. After working to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris that will change not only her own...
- 9/29/2022
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Every year, there are always a few critically acclaimed gems that don't get quite enough traction to make an impression among the tentpole summer blockbusters, whether it be through a lackluster marketing campaign or the big dogs pushing it out. One of this summer's most pleasant surprises is "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris," a thoroughly delightful adaptation of Paul Gallico's 1958 novel about a London maid who travels to the city of lights to fulfill her dream of owning a Dior couture dress of her own.
I've never read the book upon which the film is based on, but director Anthony Fabian ("Good Hope") imbues the kind-hearted fairy tale with an exuberant amount of charm. It has the beating heart of a storybook, bolstered by a charismatic central performance from Lesley Manville.
Manville's presence in a story about fashion may cause some whiplash to those who are familiar with her...
I've never read the book upon which the film is based on, but director Anthony Fabian ("Good Hope") imbues the kind-hearted fairy tale with an exuberant amount of charm. It has the beating heart of a storybook, bolstered by a charismatic central performance from Lesley Manville.
Manville's presence in a story about fashion may cause some whiplash to those who are familiar with her...
- 8/26/2022
- by Matthew Bilodeau
- Slash Film
Exclusive: The life of one of Hollywood’s leading men, Cary Grant, is to be portrayed by Jason Isaacs in an ITV and BritBox International drama, Deadline can reveal.
Philomena and Stan & Ollie writer Jeff Pope is writing and exec producing Archie, named after Grant’s birthname Archibald Alexander Leach. ITV Studios is producing and the four-parter will be a flagship premiere on soon-to-launch streamer Itvx.
Grant is widely recognized as one of Hollywood’s leading men, gaining a reputation for his transatlantic accent, sense of comic timing and handsome, debonair demeanor over more than 70 films in a decades-long mid-twentieth century career.
He was twice nominated for an Academy Award, in Penny Serenade and None but the Lonely Heart, and worked with the biggest stars of the day including Sophia Loren, Grace Kelly and Doris Day.
Archie will start with his birth in Bristol in 1904 and tell the story of...
Philomena and Stan & Ollie writer Jeff Pope is writing and exec producing Archie, named after Grant’s birthname Archibald Alexander Leach. ITV Studios is producing and the four-parter will be a flagship premiere on soon-to-launch streamer Itvx.
Grant is widely recognized as one of Hollywood’s leading men, gaining a reputation for his transatlantic accent, sense of comic timing and handsome, debonair demeanor over more than 70 films in a decades-long mid-twentieth century career.
He was twice nominated for an Academy Award, in Penny Serenade and None but the Lonely Heart, and worked with the biggest stars of the day including Sophia Loren, Grace Kelly and Doris Day.
Archie will start with his birth in Bristol in 1904 and tell the story of...
- 8/8/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
When is a dress not just a dress? When it’s a dream. When it’s a taste of a better life that is likely the only taste you’ll ever have.
Based on a novel that’s more than 60 years old, Mrs Harris Goes to Paris couldn’t feel more fresh in its knowing clashes between the hoi polloi and those who presume to be their betters. Lesley Manville is Ada Harris, a just-about-scraping-by war widow and housekeeper/cleaner in 1957 London, whose chance encounter with a bespoke Christian Dior gown in the bedroom of one of her rich-bitch employers sends her on an odyssey of longing that she is determined to fulfill, no matter how preposterous this is for her financially, and no matter what barriers her supposed superiors will throw up at her.
Manville is an absolute treasure, as always, perhaps never more so here as when she espies,...
Based on a novel that’s more than 60 years old, Mrs Harris Goes to Paris couldn’t feel more fresh in its knowing clashes between the hoi polloi and those who presume to be their betters. Lesley Manville is Ada Harris, a just-about-scraping-by war widow and housekeeper/cleaner in 1957 London, whose chance encounter with a bespoke Christian Dior gown in the bedroom of one of her rich-bitch employers sends her on an odyssey of longing that she is determined to fulfill, no matter how preposterous this is for her financially, and no matter what barriers her supposed superiors will throw up at her.
Manville is an absolute treasure, as always, perhaps never more so here as when she espies,...
- 7/29/2022
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Ellen Thomas stars as Vi and Jason Isaacs as Archie in director Tony Fabian’s Mrs.Harris Goes To Paris, a Focus Features release. Credit: Dávid Lukács / © 2021 Ada Films Ltd – Harris Squared Kft Born in 1963, Jason Isaacs never got to experience the 1950s in person. But his new film, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, is set in Britain and France in the ’50s. Isaacs told us he had a wonderful time working in a recreation of what he called a “magical” time filled with a special kind of vibrancy. (Click on the media bar below to hear Jason Isaacs) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Jason-_Isaacs-_Shooting_1950s_.mp3 Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is now playing in theaters.
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- 7/27/2022
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris grossed 1.35 million in its second week with a mix of arthouse and commercial theaters among top 10 locations and a nice hold from its opening weekend (-31). Cume to date is 4.65 million for the film starring Leslie Manville as a British housekeeper who dreams of owning a Christian Dior gown. It was No. 10 in North America for the weekend in 1,001 theaters.
Cinemas like the Plaza Frontenac in St. Louis, Avalon Twin in Washington, D.C., and Camelview in Phoenix joined commercial venues in the top 10. Ticket sales in Week 2 expanded outside the coasts. Demos were similar, with a hefty 44 over 55, and 71 female.
“The biggest takeaway is that we are starting to get older audiences back into theaters,” Lisa Bunnell, distribution president of Focus Features, said Sunday. And, “The top 10 this weekend was a good mix of commercial and specialty theaters that we don’t see consistently anymore.
Cinemas like the Plaza Frontenac in St. Louis, Avalon Twin in Washington, D.C., and Camelview in Phoenix joined commercial venues in the top 10. Ticket sales in Week 2 expanded outside the coasts. Demos were similar, with a hefty 44 over 55, and 71 female.
“The biggest takeaway is that we are starting to get older audiences back into theaters,” Lisa Bunnell, distribution president of Focus Features, said Sunday. And, “The top 10 this weekend was a good mix of commercial and specialty theaters that we don’t see consistently anymore.
- 7/24/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Lesley Manville stars as Mrs. Harris in director Tony Fabian’s Mrs.Harris Goes To Paris, a Focus Features release.
Credit: Liam Daniel / © 2021 Ada Films Ltd – Harris Squared Kft When it came to casting the title character in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Lesley Manville was an easy choice. The actress is an Oscar nominee and a two-time BAFTA nominee who’s been a fixture of the British stage and screen since the early 1970s. Of course, that timeline also puts her at the perfect age to play the role of Ada Harris. When we talked to Manville about bringing the role to life, she told us that Harris came relatively easily to her, both because of her previous experience and her memory of the film’s era. (Click on the media bar below to hear Lesley Manville) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Lesley_Manville_Creat_Mrs_Harris_.mp3 Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris...
Credit: Liam Daniel / © 2021 Ada Films Ltd – Harris Squared Kft When it came to casting the title character in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Lesley Manville was an easy choice. The actress is an Oscar nominee and a two-time BAFTA nominee who’s been a fixture of the British stage and screen since the early 1970s. Of course, that timeline also puts her at the perfect age to play the role of Ada Harris. When we talked to Manville about bringing the role to life, she told us that Harris came relatively easily to her, both because of her previous experience and her memory of the film’s era. (Click on the media bar below to hear Lesley Manville) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Lesley_Manville_Creat_Mrs_Harris_.mp3 Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris...
- 7/21/2022
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Buoyed by a delightful performance from Lesley Manville as the titular character, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris manages to outshine even its effervescent lead to produce a heart-warming and emotionally rewarding drama.
The film relates the tale of recently widowed Ada Harris, who, after becoming entranced by a couture Dior dress, embarks on a quest to purchase one of her own. Suddenly, through a series of fortunate events, Mrs. Harris finds herself on an adventure in Paris that will resonate throughout both her own life and the House of Dior itself.
The heart and soul of the film rests on the capable shoulders of Lesley Manville, who delivers a tour de force performance as the title character. She is easily the aspect that draws the viewer into the film and thereafter keeps him/her enthralled by the events swirling and unfolding around this extremely likable cleaning lady. Similarly, Isabelle Huppert also shines as Claudine Colbert,...
The film relates the tale of recently widowed Ada Harris, who, after becoming entranced by a couture Dior dress, embarks on a quest to purchase one of her own. Suddenly, through a series of fortunate events, Mrs. Harris finds herself on an adventure in Paris that will resonate throughout both her own life and the House of Dior itself.
The heart and soul of the film rests on the capable shoulders of Lesley Manville, who delivers a tour de force performance as the title character. She is easily the aspect that draws the viewer into the film and thereafter keeps him/her enthralled by the events swirling and unfolding around this extremely likable cleaning lady. Similarly, Isabelle Huppert also shines as Claudine Colbert,...
- 7/18/2022
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
It’s no surprise to those who know Lesley Manville, the London-based Olivier Award winner (Ibsen’s “Ghosts”) and 2018 Oscar nominee (Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread”), that she charmingly carries the title role in the third movie incarnation of “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” adapted by writer-director Anthony Fabian from Paul Gallico’s popular 1958 novel.
Cinephiles discovered Manville over her ten-year detour from her early musical theater career (when she was married to Gary Oldman; they raised a son) to collaborate with filmmaker Mike Leigh after 1980’s BBC movie “Grown-Ups.” After that, she helped him to create memorable characters in seven films, most notably the heartbreakingly annoying Mary in “Another Year” (2010).
Manville recently rejoined her “Vera Drake” costar Imelda Staunton in Peter Morgan’s “The Crown” Season 5 (which starts streaming this November on Netflix) as Princess Margaret to Staunton’s Queen Elizabeth, which recently wrapped in London, to be...
Cinephiles discovered Manville over her ten-year detour from her early musical theater career (when she was married to Gary Oldman; they raised a son) to collaborate with filmmaker Mike Leigh after 1980’s BBC movie “Grown-Ups.” After that, she helped him to create memorable characters in seven films, most notably the heartbreakingly annoying Mary in “Another Year” (2010).
Manville recently rejoined her “Vera Drake” costar Imelda Staunton in Peter Morgan’s “The Crown” Season 5 (which starts streaming this November on Netflix) as Princess Margaret to Staunton’s Queen Elizabeth, which recently wrapped in London, to be...
- 7/18/2022
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Focus Features’ Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris will hit an estimated 1.9 million weekend gross at 980 theaters drawing women with those 55 years of age and older repping 44 of the total. Turnout was best on the coasts for the drama starring Leslie Manville and Isabelle Huppert.
That’s a PSA of 1,939 and a solid open in unpredictable times for specialty. Distributors these days can hope for at least 1 million on circa 1,000 screens, but don’t all make it. And there’s competition for the female demo this weekend with wide-release Where The Crawdads Sing. As Deadline reported, some fifty-five percent of Crawdads ticket buyers were women with 41 over 45 (although this film’s best markets were in the South and Midwest).
Mrs. Harris, directed by Anthony Fabian, from eOne, has a A Cinema Score with strong reviews. Focus said the open and positive critical reception and word mouth set it up for solid...
That’s a PSA of 1,939 and a solid open in unpredictable times for specialty. Distributors these days can hope for at least 1 million on circa 1,000 screens, but don’t all make it. And there’s competition for the female demo this weekend with wide-release Where The Crawdads Sing. As Deadline reported, some fifty-five percent of Crawdads ticket buyers were women with 41 over 45 (although this film’s best markets were in the South and Midwest).
Mrs. Harris, directed by Anthony Fabian, from eOne, has a A Cinema Score with strong reviews. Focus said the open and positive critical reception and word mouth set it up for solid...
- 7/17/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris Review — Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Anthony Fabian, written by Anthony Fabian, Carroll Cartwright, Keith Thompson and Olivia Hetreed and starring Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Ellen Thomas, Jason Isaacs, Anna Chancellor, Rose Williams, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo, Freddie Fox, Lambert Wilson, [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris (2022): Lesley Manville Lights Up the Screen in Elegant, Old-Fashioned Movie About Fashion...
Continue reading: Film Review: Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris (2022): Lesley Manville Lights Up the Screen in Elegant, Old-Fashioned Movie About Fashion...
- 7/17/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris, a kind Cinderella story for older women with a Dior twist, arrives in 978 theaters this weekend with strong reviews and great word of mouth. The film is a known property among that demo given its prime trailer treatment before Focus Features’ fan favorite Downtown Abbey: A New Era — not a bad setup.
Deadline review here. The film by Anthony Fabian with Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert and Jason Isaacs has a 92/critics, 94/audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. It shares the pond with a handful of strong studio holdovers and new wide releases Paw Patrol: The Movie and drama Where The Crawdads Sing. Like Crawdads, Mrs. Harris is based on a popular book – the 1958 novel by Paul Gallico – and book clubs are prominent in a large marketing push.
Manville plays Ada Harris, a British housekeeper and widow who dreams of buying her own couture Christian Dior gown.
Deadline review here. The film by Anthony Fabian with Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert and Jason Isaacs has a 92/critics, 94/audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. It shares the pond with a handful of strong studio holdovers and new wide releases Paw Patrol: The Movie and drama Where The Crawdads Sing. Like Crawdads, Mrs. Harris is based on a popular book – the 1958 novel by Paul Gallico – and book clubs are prominent in a large marketing push.
Manville plays Ada Harris, a British housekeeper and widow who dreams of buying her own couture Christian Dior gown.
- 7/15/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” is the fourth screen adaptation of Paul Gallico’s 1958 novel “Flowers for Mrs. Harris,” which kicked off a series of bestselling books about an enchanting English cleaning woman and her unlikely international adventures. Though the tale has been filmed three times before (most popularly as a 1992 TV movie starring Angela Lansbury), director Anthony Fabian’s new adaptation seems destined to become the definitive version thanks to its exquisite evocation of post-wwii Europe and the delicacy with which it tells its simple but heartfelt story.
In the film, the title character played by Lesley Manville is inspired to change her life when she lays eyes on her employer’s Christian Dior dress; the British housekeeper is so dazzled that she scrapes together all the money she can and travels to Paris to get her own Dior gown straight from the source. This simple premise belies the...
In the film, the title character played by Lesley Manville is inspired to change her life when she lays eyes on her employer’s Christian Dior dress; the British housekeeper is so dazzled that she scrapes together all the money she can and travels to Paris to get her own Dior gown straight from the source. This simple premise belies the...
- 7/15/2022
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
The joy of achieving a certain je ne sais quoi gleams in Anthony Fabian’s heartwarming “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” in theaters July 15, about a widowed ’50s-era cleaning lady—Lesley Manville’s affable Ada Harris — as she travels from London to Paris to purchase a Christian Dior gown. Designing the intricate costumes with exact Dior replicas was the job of Jenny Beavan, in another couture-centric film after her Oscar-winning designs for “Cruella.”
As a storyteller in her own right, Beavan was charmed by Mrs. Harris as a brave, hardworking woman pursuing her dreams. Portraying those with accuracy meant deep archival research, as well as a close collaboration with the House of Dior and its leading archivist, Soizic Pfaff.
Beavan was able to borrow five pieces from Dior’s Heritage collection for the movie’s central fashion show that Mrs. Harris attends to pick her eventual dress. They were mostly black-and-white frocks,...
As a storyteller in her own right, Beavan was charmed by Mrs. Harris as a brave, hardworking woman pursuing her dreams. Portraying those with accuracy meant deep archival research, as well as a close collaboration with the House of Dior and its leading archivist, Soizic Pfaff.
Beavan was able to borrow five pieces from Dior’s Heritage collection for the movie’s central fashion show that Mrs. Harris attends to pick her eventual dress. They were mostly black-and-white frocks,...
- 7/15/2022
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on July 14th, reviewing “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” the adventures of a British cleaning lady when she decides to wish upon a dream, in theaters on July 15th.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Lesley Manville is Ada Harris, a British cleaning woman in London who believes in the power of fate, despite having not heard from her missing-in-action husband 13 years after World War II has ended. When a package arrives confirming her hubby’s death, she is inspired by one of her client’s dresses to go to 1958 Paris and buy a dress from the House of Christian Dior. When she actually gets to the City of Lights, it opens up to her magic wish, and she becomes involved in everything Dior, including his Office Manager Claudine (Isabelle Huppert), Model Natasha (Alba Baptiste) and accountant Andre (Lucas Bravo...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Lesley Manville is Ada Harris, a British cleaning woman in London who believes in the power of fate, despite having not heard from her missing-in-action husband 13 years after World War II has ended. When a package arrives confirming her hubby’s death, she is inspired by one of her client’s dresses to go to 1958 Paris and buy a dress from the House of Christian Dior. When she actually gets to the City of Lights, it opens up to her magic wish, and she becomes involved in everything Dior, including his Office Manager Claudine (Isabelle Huppert), Model Natasha (Alba Baptiste) and accountant Andre (Lucas Bravo...
- 7/15/2022
- by PatrickMcD
- HollywoodChicago.com
Lesley Manville stars as Mrs. Harris in director Tony Fabian’s Mrs.Harris Goes To Paris, a Focus Features release. Credit: Dávid Lukács / © 2021 Ada Films Ltd – Harris Squared Kft. Courtesy of Focus Features
Mid-century high fashion and an irresistibly charming Lesley Manville add sparkle to the sweet, light-as-air Mrs Harris Goes To Paris, an uplifting tale in which an older British house cleaner falls in love with a Dior dress and decides she must have one of her own. It is a grown-up fairy-tale that fits neatly into a familiar genre of British films dealing with the divide between the working class and the aristocratic one. Set in 1957, Mrs Harris Goes To Paris also showcases mid-century couture fashion, with recreations of actual Christian Dior period dress designs, with other visual delights by costume designer Jenny Beavan, the creative force behind the fashions in last year’s Cruella.
An outstanding and nuanced...
Mid-century high fashion and an irresistibly charming Lesley Manville add sparkle to the sweet, light-as-air Mrs Harris Goes To Paris, an uplifting tale in which an older British house cleaner falls in love with a Dior dress and decides she must have one of her own. It is a grown-up fairy-tale that fits neatly into a familiar genre of British films dealing with the divide between the working class and the aristocratic one. Set in 1957, Mrs Harris Goes To Paris also showcases mid-century couture fashion, with recreations of actual Christian Dior period dress designs, with other visual delights by costume designer Jenny Beavan, the creative force behind the fashions in last year’s Cruella.
An outstanding and nuanced...
- 7/15/2022
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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For the new Focus Features film Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, based on Paul Gallico’s 1958 novel, costume designer Jenny Beavan takes on re-creating the looks of the legendary Christian Dior, who revolutionized fashion in 1947 with the introduction of his sumptuous wasp-waisted, full-skirted and rounded-shoulder “New Look” silhouette.
“Oh gosh, it was a really tough one,” says Beavan, about balancing the depiction of a captivating story and Dior’s enduringly influential design, which serves as a central plot device in the Anthony Fabian-directed fashion fable.
In 1957 London, brokenhearted housekeeper Ada Harris (Lesley Manville) is mesmerized by her aristocratic employer’s floral-appliquéd Dior gown, christened “Ravissante.” The glimmering confection serves as a sartorial catalyst for Mrs. Harris, still mourning her husband’s WWII disappearance, to feel love again as she embarks on a Parisian adventure to secure her own Dior.
The dress needed to enchant the flower-loving Mrs.
For the new Focus Features film Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, based on Paul Gallico’s 1958 novel, costume designer Jenny Beavan takes on re-creating the looks of the legendary Christian Dior, who revolutionized fashion in 1947 with the introduction of his sumptuous wasp-waisted, full-skirted and rounded-shoulder “New Look” silhouette.
“Oh gosh, it was a really tough one,” says Beavan, about balancing the depiction of a captivating story and Dior’s enduringly influential design, which serves as a central plot device in the Anthony Fabian-directed fashion fable.
In 1957 London, brokenhearted housekeeper Ada Harris (Lesley Manville) is mesmerized by her aristocratic employer’s floral-appliquéd Dior gown, christened “Ravissante.” The glimmering confection serves as a sartorial catalyst for Mrs. Harris, still mourning her husband’s WWII disappearance, to feel love again as she embarks on a Parisian adventure to secure her own Dior.
The dress needed to enchant the flower-loving Mrs.
- 7/14/2022
- by Fawnia Soo Hoo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A housekeeper waltzing into Christian Dior and choosing a couture gown may sound like the height of fantasy, but the biggest stretch in Anthony Fabian’s “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” may be all the nice French people she meets along the way. Starring the inimitable Lesley Manville, in a role that effectively transitions the frequent Mike Leigh collaborator into the Helen Mirren phase of her career, “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” is a charming confection of a middle-aged, middle-class fantasy.
Imbuing the lavish period delights of “Mrs. Maisel” with a lively post-menopausal heroine “Hacks” made trendy, “Mrs. Harris”
The movie begins in 1957 London, where Mrs. Ada Harris (Manville) has finally received word, after years of holding out hope, that her dear Eddie was killed in action some dozen years prior. As she goes about her usual routine, cleaning the flats of the entitled rich who regard her as nothing more than reliably good-natured help,...
Imbuing the lavish period delights of “Mrs. Maisel” with a lively post-menopausal heroine “Hacks” made trendy, “Mrs. Harris”
The movie begins in 1957 London, where Mrs. Ada Harris (Manville) has finally received word, after years of holding out hope, that her dear Eddie was killed in action some dozen years prior. As she goes about her usual routine, cleaning the flats of the entitled rich who regard her as nothing more than reliably good-natured help,...
- 7/14/2022
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Want to win free passes to see Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris? The Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris dress/suit donation event happens in St. Louis tomorrow, Bastille Day, at Le Macaron French Pastries to benefit Dress for Success Midwest. https://midwest.dressforsuccess.org/
The first 25 donors will receive complimentary passes for two to see the film.
Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris opens in theaters this Friday, July 15, 2022
Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris is the enchanting tale of a seemingly ordinary British housekeeper whose dream to own a couture Christian Dior gown takes her on an extraordinary adventure to Paris.
From director Anthony Fabian, it stars Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Anna Chancellor, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo, Rose William.
https://www.focusfeatures.com/mrs-harris-goes-to-paris/
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The first 25 donors will receive complimentary passes for two to see the film.
Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris opens in theaters this Friday, July 15, 2022
Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris is the enchanting tale of a seemingly ordinary British housekeeper whose dream to own a couture Christian Dior gown takes her on an extraordinary adventure to Paris.
From director Anthony Fabian, it stars Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Anna Chancellor, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo, Rose William.
https://www.focusfeatures.com/mrs-harris-goes-to-paris/
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- 7/14/2022
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Disney/Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder will continue its reign atop the weekend box office in its second session, with on the low-end an anticipated 65 decline or 50M from its 144M opening.
The movie is easily heading past 200M in the next three days, and yesterday grossed an estimated 13.6M for a running total that’s just under 170M.
Pic’s first Tuesday, thanks to summer traffic mid-week, is ahead of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness by 8 which did 12.6M.
Thor 4‘s anticipated second weekend decline is in line with recent Marvel fare, i.e. Spider-Way: No Way Home (-67), Doctor Strange 2 (-67) and Eternals (-62).
Two smaller sized budget wide releases, Paramount/Nickelodeon’s animated Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (45M production cost, 10M acquisition by the Melrose Ave. lot from Gfm Animation) and Sony/Hello Sunshine/3000 Picture’s 24M production Where the Crawdads Sing,...
The movie is easily heading past 200M in the next three days, and yesterday grossed an estimated 13.6M for a running total that’s just under 170M.
Pic’s first Tuesday, thanks to summer traffic mid-week, is ahead of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness by 8 which did 12.6M.
Thor 4‘s anticipated second weekend decline is in line with recent Marvel fare, i.e. Spider-Way: No Way Home (-67), Doctor Strange 2 (-67) and Eternals (-62).
Two smaller sized budget wide releases, Paramount/Nickelodeon’s animated Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (45M production cost, 10M acquisition by the Melrose Ave. lot from Gfm Animation) and Sony/Hello Sunshine/3000 Picture’s 24M production Where the Crawdads Sing,...
- 7/13/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Good luck finding a sweeter, more innocent film in 2022: “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” is a rapturous adaptation of the classic 1958 novel by Paul Gallico (“The Poseidon Adventure”), in which a kindly person pursues their goals, which are always just slightly out of reach. It’s a formula that’s custom-designed for audience satisfaction, and when it’s done right it’s nothing short of a miracle.
“Mrs. Harris,” directed by Anthony Fabian (“Louder Than Words”), tells the story of Ada Harris (Lesley Manville), a cleaning lady in 1950s London. Her husband went missing in the war, and she’s spent the last decade-and-a-half waiting for him to return, doing difficult jobs for rich people who don’t appreciate her. When word finally arrives of her husband’s fate, Ada Harris realizes it’s time to stop waiting and make her own dreams come true.
Mrs. Harris’s dream...
“Mrs. Harris,” directed by Anthony Fabian (“Louder Than Words”), tells the story of Ada Harris (Lesley Manville), a cleaning lady in 1950s London. Her husband went missing in the war, and she’s spent the last decade-and-a-half waiting for him to return, doing difficult jobs for rich people who don’t appreciate her. When word finally arrives of her husband’s fate, Ada Harris realizes it’s time to stop waiting and make her own dreams come true.
Mrs. Harris’s dream...
- 7/12/2022
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris is the enchanting tale of a seemingly ordinary British housekeeper whose dream to own a couture Christian Dior gown takes her on an extraordinary adventure to Paris. The film stars Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Ellen Thomas and Lucas Bravo.
Directed and written by Anthony Fabian, Focus Features will release Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris in theaters on Friday, July 15, 2022
Enter to win passes for you and a guest to attend the Advance Screening.
Date And Time:
July 13, 2022 at 7:00pm at 7pm at the Landmark Plaza Frontenac
The screening will be filled on a first come first served basis, so we encourage you to arrive early. Seats will not be guaranteed. Rated PG.
Enter here: https://focusfeaturesscreenings.com/main/sweepstakes/qxbmN03989
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Directed and written by Anthony Fabian, Focus Features will release Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris in theaters on Friday, July 15, 2022
Enter to win passes for you and a guest to attend the Advance Screening.
Date And Time:
July 13, 2022 at 7:00pm at 7pm at the Landmark Plaza Frontenac
The screening will be filled on a first come first served basis, so we encourage you to arrive early. Seats will not be guaranteed. Rated PG.
Enter here: https://focusfeaturesscreenings.com/main/sweepstakes/qxbmN03989
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- 7/11/2022
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Dior on the Floor: Fabian Spins Sweetness into Schmaltz with Anglophile Fairy Tale
It’s never too late to follow one’s dreams, as the truncated tagline beckons for Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, a sing-song narrative of humanist whimsy directed by Anthony Fabian. And for those who dare to pursue their desires, they’re bound to inspire the cynical, jaded brutes in their wake, a sentiment belabored in this facelift on Paul Gallico’s classic 1958 novel Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris, which was adapted for television by Murder She Wrote creator Anthony Shaw starring Angela Lansbury, Diana Rigg, and Omar Sharif in 1992.…...
It’s never too late to follow one’s dreams, as the truncated tagline beckons for Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, a sing-song narrative of humanist whimsy directed by Anthony Fabian. And for those who dare to pursue their desires, they’re bound to inspire the cynical, jaded brutes in their wake, a sentiment belabored in this facelift on Paul Gallico’s classic 1958 novel Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris, which was adapted for television by Murder She Wrote creator Anthony Shaw starring Angela Lansbury, Diana Rigg, and Omar Sharif in 1992.…...
- 7/11/2022
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Click here to read the full article.
There’s a wonderful symmetry to the lead casting of Lesley Manville in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, playing a woman who’s the flipside of Cyril, her role in Phantom Thread. That character glided around a mid-’50s London couture atelier with icy ownership, fiercely protective of her dress designer brother and his classical creations. As Mrs. Harris, Manville dreams of accessing a similarly privileged world of sartorial splendor, one in which her age and class make her seem an unlikely interloper. The beauty of her performance in this delightful fairy tale for grown-ups is the way in which her purity of heart and inherent goodness gently pry open those closed doors.
Manville has excelled at playing characters on the brittle, aloof, even villainous end of the spectrum; she was a viciously tyrannical matriarch in Let Him Go and the juiciest of schemers in Harlots.
There’s a wonderful symmetry to the lead casting of Lesley Manville in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, playing a woman who’s the flipside of Cyril, her role in Phantom Thread. That character glided around a mid-’50s London couture atelier with icy ownership, fiercely protective of her dress designer brother and his classical creations. As Mrs. Harris, Manville dreams of accessing a similarly privileged world of sartorial splendor, one in which her age and class make her seem an unlikely interloper. The beauty of her performance in this delightful fairy tale for grown-ups is the way in which her purity of heart and inherent goodness gently pry open those closed doors.
Manville has excelled at playing characters on the brittle, aloof, even villainous end of the spectrum; she was a viciously tyrannical matriarch in Let Him Go and the juiciest of schemers in Harlots.
- 7/11/2022
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
For those tired of movies in which something as grand as the fate of our existence is at stake — threatened by aliens or wizards or something so far removed from reality — the simply titled and even more simply plotted “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” offers a pleasant reprieve. Here, in a fresh adaptation of Paul Gallico’s 1958 novel, we get an arm’s-reach fairy tale about an indefatigably chipper English charwoman whose most ardent dream is to own a gown from Christian Dior.
Mrs. Harris’ goal may not seem so far-fetched, but it can only be realized by stepping out of her comfort zone, which means saving up her pennies and making a trip across the Channel to the land of Chanel, where dresses are made to order and what she craves is pronounced “Creest-yon Dee-yor.” This is 1957 we’re talking about, and the most exclusive French fashion houses don...
Mrs. Harris’ goal may not seem so far-fetched, but it can only be realized by stepping out of her comfort zone, which means saving up her pennies and making a trip across the Channel to the land of Chanel, where dresses are made to order and what she craves is pronounced “Creest-yon Dee-yor.” This is 1957 we’re talking about, and the most exclusive French fashion houses don...
- 7/11/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including red carpets for Only Murders in the Building, Black Bird, Minions: The Rise of Gru and Mr. Malcolm’s List.
Minions: The Rise of Gru premiere
Universal debuted its most recent Despicable Me flick in Hollywood on Saturday, joined by stars Steve Carell, Michelle Yeoh, Taraji P. Henson, Danny Trejo and Dolph Lundgren.
Only Murders in the Building season two premiere
Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez, along with guest star Amy Schumer and showrunner John Hoffman, premiered the season season of their hit whodunit on Monday at Los Angeles’ DGA Theater.
Black Bird premiere
Apple TV+ rolled out the red carpet for its new drama series Black Bird on Wednesday in Los Angeles, with stars Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser, Sepideh Moafi and Greg Kinnear
Mr. Malcolm’s List special screening
On Wednesday,...
Minions: The Rise of Gru premiere
Universal debuted its most recent Despicable Me flick in Hollywood on Saturday, joined by stars Steve Carell, Michelle Yeoh, Taraji P. Henson, Danny Trejo and Dolph Lundgren.
Only Murders in the Building season two premiere
Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez, along with guest star Amy Schumer and showrunner John Hoffman, premiered the season season of their hit whodunit on Monday at Los Angeles’ DGA Theater.
Black Bird premiere
Apple TV+ rolled out the red carpet for its new drama series Black Bird on Wednesday in Los Angeles, with stars Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser, Sepideh Moafi and Greg Kinnear
Mr. Malcolm’s List special screening
On Wednesday,...
- 7/1/2022
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Focus Features has released the delightful poster and trailer for Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris, the enchanting tale of a seemingly ordinary British housekeeper whose dream to own a couture Christian Dior gown takes her on an extraordinary adventure to Paris.
From Writer and Director Anthony Fabian, check out the preview now.
Starring Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Anna Chancellor, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo, Rose William, Focus Features will release Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris in theaters on Friday, July 15, 2022.
https://www.focusfeatures.com/mrs-harris-goes-to-paris
MHP_00219 Actor Lucas Bravo, director Tony Fabian and actor Lesley Manville on the set of Mrs.Harris Goes To Paris, a Focus Features release. Credit: Liam Daniel / © 2021 Ada Films Ltd – Harris Squared Kft MHP_17724_R Lesley Manville stars as Mrs. Harris in director Tony Fabian’s Mrs.Harris Goes To Paris, a Focus Features release. Credit: Liam Daniel / © 2021 Ada Films Ltd – Harris...
From Writer and Director Anthony Fabian, check out the preview now.
Starring Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Anna Chancellor, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo, Rose William, Focus Features will release Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris in theaters on Friday, July 15, 2022.
https://www.focusfeatures.com/mrs-harris-goes-to-paris
MHP_00219 Actor Lucas Bravo, director Tony Fabian and actor Lesley Manville on the set of Mrs.Harris Goes To Paris, a Focus Features release. Credit: Liam Daniel / © 2021 Ada Films Ltd – Harris Squared Kft MHP_17724_R Lesley Manville stars as Mrs. Harris in director Tony Fabian’s Mrs.Harris Goes To Paris, a Focus Features release. Credit: Liam Daniel / © 2021 Ada Films Ltd – Harris...
- 5/1/2022
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Lesley Manville finds herself on the other side of couture fashion in the charming comedy "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris." The film is directed by "Skin" and "Louder than Words" filmmaker Anthony Fabian, and is based on a 1958 book by author Paul Gallico. In the book, a woman named Mrs. Harris is determined to visit the Parisian House of Dior for a dress of her own.
Focus Features shared some tidbits about "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris," calling it a "whimsical comedy" led by "Phantom Thread" actress Lesley Manville, who plays a widowed cleaning woman in the 1950s-set period...
The post Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris Trailer: Lesley Manville Finds Love and a Dior Dress appeared first on /Film.
Focus Features shared some tidbits about "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris," calling it a "whimsical comedy" led by "Phantom Thread" actress Lesley Manville, who plays a widowed cleaning woman in the 1950s-set period...
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- 4/28/2022
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Universal Pictures has debuted a new trailer for Anthony Fabian’s ‘Mrs Harris Goes To Paris.’
The film tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress and decides that she must have one of her own. After she works, starves and gambles to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris which will change not only her own outlook but the very future of the House of Dior.
Written and Directed by Anthony Fabian, the film stars Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo, Rose Williams.
Also in trailers – Mark Wahlberg turns to God in trailer for ‘Father Stu’
The film hits cinemas on September 30th.
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The film tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress and decides that she must have one of her own. After she works, starves and gambles to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris which will change not only her own outlook but the very future of the House of Dior.
Written and Directed by Anthony Fabian, the film stars Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo, Rose Williams.
Also in trailers – Mark Wahlberg turns to God in trailer for ‘Father Stu’
The film hits cinemas on September 30th.
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- 4/28/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Lesley Manville heads to the city of lights in the first trailer for Focus Features’ Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, in theaters July 15. In the clip, Manville plays a British housekeeper named Ada Harris whose dream to own a Christian Dior couture gown takes her on a whirlwind, heart-warming adventure to Paris.
The film, directed by Anthony Fabian, also stars Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo, and Rose Williams. It’s based on a novel by author Paul Gallico, which was first published in 1958, and was...
The film, directed by Anthony Fabian, also stars Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo, and Rose Williams. It’s based on a novel by author Paul Gallico, which was first published in 1958, and was...
- 4/28/2022
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
“We have our own superheroes here at Focus Feature and they are going to bring older filmgoers back to your movie theaters,” Lisa Bunnell, Focus Features distribution chief, promised thousands of cinema execs at Universal’s CinemaCon presentation Wednesday.
“They want to see something new. They come,” she said, welcoming the cast of Downton Abbey: A New Era via video offering brief, happy remarks and thanks to the CinemaCon crowd that fans in North America would soon be experiencing the film.
CinemaCon 2022: Deadline’s Full Coverage
The anticipated sequel based on the wildly popular series is set to open in North America on May 20. It’s out in the UK this week. (Read Deadline’s review here.)
Focus presented some footage from the film — there’s been a trailer out for some time. A movie is going to be shot at the historic family estate; Tom is getting married...
“They want to see something new. They come,” she said, welcoming the cast of Downton Abbey: A New Era via video offering brief, happy remarks and thanks to the CinemaCon crowd that fans in North America would soon be experiencing the film.
CinemaCon 2022: Deadline’s Full Coverage
The anticipated sequel based on the wildly popular series is set to open in North America on May 20. It’s out in the UK this week. (Read Deadline’s review here.)
Focus presented some footage from the film — there’s been a trailer out for some time. A movie is going to be shot at the historic family estate; Tom is getting married...
- 4/28/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Focus Features has pushed Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris from May 6 to July 15.
This is not on account of the pandemic, rather to provide the film with some breathing room against Focus’ Downton Abbey: A New Era which debuts on May 20.
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris will be a moderate release and open on the same weekend as Sony’s Brad Pitt action title Bullet Train and STX horror movie Bed Rest.
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris follows a seemingly ordinary British housekeeper whose dream to own a couture Christian Dior gown takes her on an extraordinary adventure to Paris. The film stars Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo and Rose Williams.
Pic is directed by Anthony Fabian, written by Fabian, Carroll Cartwright, Keith Thompson, and Olivia Hetreed, and based on the novella of the same name by Paul Gallico. Producers are Xavier Marchand,...
This is not on account of the pandemic, rather to provide the film with some breathing room against Focus’ Downton Abbey: A New Era which debuts on May 20.
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris will be a moderate release and open on the same weekend as Sony’s Brad Pitt action title Bullet Train and STX horror movie Bed Rest.
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris follows a seemingly ordinary British housekeeper whose dream to own a couture Christian Dior gown takes her on an extraordinary adventure to Paris. The film stars Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo and Rose Williams.
Pic is directed by Anthony Fabian, written by Fabian, Carroll Cartwright, Keith Thompson, and Olivia Hetreed, and based on the novella of the same name by Paul Gallico. Producers are Xavier Marchand,...
- 2/9/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Stephanie Phillips, who most recently served as Warner Bros. SVP Global Publicity, is heading over to Focus Features as its new EVP Publicity.
Industry vet Dani Weinstein, who was formerly in this role, will be departing Universal’s classic label after a near five-year run.
Phillips counts more than two decades of experience overseeing multi-faceted global publicity campaigns. She will be based in Los Angeles and report to Focus Features Vice Chairman Jason Cassidy.
Phillips will oversee all publicity for Focus Features’ theatrical slate while working closely on awards campaigns and strategic branding. She will team with Universal Pictures’ global publicity team on Focus’ overseas campaigns on titles distributed via Universal Pictures International.
Weinstein worked on many Oscar campaigns for the label including most recently Promising Young Woman and 2017’s Darkest Hour from Joe Wright. She already has teed up Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast for Focus this awards season; the...
Industry vet Dani Weinstein, who was formerly in this role, will be departing Universal’s classic label after a near five-year run.
Phillips counts more than two decades of experience overseeing multi-faceted global publicity campaigns. She will be based in Los Angeles and report to Focus Features Vice Chairman Jason Cassidy.
Phillips will oversee all publicity for Focus Features’ theatrical slate while working closely on awards campaigns and strategic branding. She will team with Universal Pictures’ global publicity team on Focus’ overseas campaigns on titles distributed via Universal Pictures International.
Weinstein worked on many Oscar campaigns for the label including most recently Promising Young Woman and 2017’s Darkest Hour from Joe Wright. She already has teed up Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast for Focus this awards season; the...
- 11/30/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Emily in Paris co-star Lucas Bravo has joined Julia Roberts, George Clooney and Kaitlyn Dever in Ticket To Paradise, the Universal Pictures romantic comedy that will be directed by Ol Parker (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again).
In the comedy, a couple of exes find themselves on a shared mission: stop their lovestruck daughter from making the same mistake they once made. Parker wrote the script with Daniel Pipski.
Bravo recently wrapped on Dean Craig’s The Honeymoon, a romantic comedy the French actor stars in opposite Maria Bakalova. He’ll next be seen in Anthony Fabian’s Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris.
Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce alongside Sarah Harvey and Deborah Balderstone, and Smokehouse Pictures partners Clooney and Grant Heslov are producing alongside Red Om Films’ Roberts, Lisa Gillan, and Marisa Yeres Gill. Senior Executive Vice President of Production Erik Baiers and...
In the comedy, a couple of exes find themselves on a shared mission: stop their lovestruck daughter from making the same mistake they once made. Parker wrote the script with Daniel Pipski.
Bravo recently wrapped on Dean Craig’s The Honeymoon, a romantic comedy the French actor stars in opposite Maria Bakalova. He’ll next be seen in Anthony Fabian’s Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris.
Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce alongside Sarah Harvey and Deborah Balderstone, and Smokehouse Pictures partners Clooney and Grant Heslov are producing alongside Red Om Films’ Roberts, Lisa Gillan, and Marisa Yeres Gill. Senior Executive Vice President of Production Erik Baiers and...
- 10/19/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
The feature take of Paul Gallico’s novella Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is set for a theatrical release March 4, 2022 via Focus Features in the U.S. and Canada, the distributor said Tuesday.
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris stars Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo and Rose Williams.
Directed by Anthony Fabian and in partnership with the House of Dior, the film tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady (Manville) in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own. After she works, starves and gambles to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris that will change not only her own outlook, but the very future of the House of Dior.
Carroll Cartwright, Fabian, Keith Thompson, and Olivia Hetreed adapted. Producers are Xavier Marchand,...
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris stars Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo and Rose Williams.
Directed by Anthony Fabian and in partnership with the House of Dior, the film tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady (Manville) in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own. After she works, starves and gambles to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris that will change not only her own outlook, but the very future of the House of Dior.
Carroll Cartwright, Fabian, Keith Thompson, and Olivia Hetreed adapted. Producers are Xavier Marchand,...
- 5/11/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
eOne financed with support from National Film Institute of Hungary.
Universal Pictures International will release Mrs Harris Goes To Paris in the UK and internationally on February 25, 2022.
The drama starring Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, and Jason Isaacs will open in North America via Focus Features on March 4, 2022.
Anthony Fabian is directing the film from a screenplay by Carroll Cartwright, Fabian, Keith Thompson, and Olivia Hetreed, based on the novella of the same name by Paul Gallico.
The story centres on a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she...
Universal Pictures International will release Mrs Harris Goes To Paris in the UK and internationally on February 25, 2022.
The drama starring Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, and Jason Isaacs will open in North America via Focus Features on March 4, 2022.
Anthony Fabian is directing the film from a screenplay by Carroll Cartwright, Fabian, Keith Thompson, and Olivia Hetreed, based on the novella of the same name by Paul Gallico.
The story centres on a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she...
- 5/11/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” a period drama starring Lesley Manville and Isabelle Huppert that emerged at this year’s European Film Market.
Anthony Fabian is directing the film that is based on a novella by Paul Gallico. Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo and Rose Williams also star in the film, which Focus Features will release domestically while Universal Pictures International handles overseas distribution.
“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” was made in partnership with the fashion group the House of Dior, and it tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress and decides that she must have one of her own. After she works, starves and gambles to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris which will change not only her own outlook,...
Anthony Fabian is directing the film that is based on a novella by Paul Gallico. Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo and Rose Williams also star in the film, which Focus Features will release domestically while Universal Pictures International handles overseas distribution.
“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” was made in partnership with the fashion group the House of Dior, and it tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress and decides that she must have one of her own. After she works, starves and gambles to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris which will change not only her own outlook,...
- 3/31/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Focus Features has struck an eight-figure deal (we hear in the mid-teens) for world rights to feature Mrs Harris Goes To Paris, starring Oscar nominees Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) and Isabelle Huppert (Elle), Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter), Lambert Wilson (The Matrix), Alba Baptista (Warrior Nun), Lucas Bravo (Emily In Paris) and Rose Williams (Reign).
Made in partnership with the House of Dior, the period drama tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady (Manville) in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own. After she works, starves and gambles to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris which will change not only her own outlook, but also the future of the iconic fashion house.
Based on the popular 1958 novella of the same name by Paul Gallico, the story...
Made in partnership with the House of Dior, the period drama tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady (Manville) in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own. After she works, starves and gambles to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris which will change not only her own outlook, but also the future of the iconic fashion house.
Based on the popular 1958 novella of the same name by Paul Gallico, the story...
- 3/31/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Anthony Fabian is set to reveal his highest profile project since 2008’s Skin with a revamp of a beloved Paul Gallico novella Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, a UK production which lensed primarily in Budapest. Headlined by Lesley Manville and starring Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, and Lucas Bravo. Gallico is perhaps most well-known as the author of The Poseidon Adventure, but his Mrs. Harris was a character features throughout a series of his work, and this particular novel was last mounted as a 1992 television production starring Angela Lansbury and Diana Rigg.…...
Anthony Fabian is set to reveal his highest profile project since 2008’s Skin with a revamp of a beloved Paul Gallico novella Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, a UK production which lensed primarily in Budapest. Headlined by Lesley Manville and starring Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, and Lucas Bravo. Gallico is perhaps most well-known as the author of The Poseidon Adventure, but his Mrs. Harris was a character features throughout a series of his work, and this particular novel was last mounted as a 1992 television production starring Angela Lansbury and Diana Rigg.…...
- 1/1/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: WME has signed actor Lucas Bravo, who can currently be seen starring opposite Lily Collins in the new Netflix series Emily In Paris from Sex In The City and Younger creator Darren Star.
The show follows Collins’ character Emily who moves from the Midwest to Paris for an unexpected job opportunity. Bravo plays chef Gabriel, Emily’s neighbor and love interest.
In addition, Bravo is in production on the Anthony Fabian-directed drama, Mrs Harris Goes to Paris, alongside Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, and Jason Isaacs. It tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress and decides that she must have one of her own
Other credits include French thriller, L’Equipe, and Kim Chapiron’s Smart Ass.
Bravo continues to be repped by Definition Entertainment.
The show follows Collins’ character Emily who moves from the Midwest to Paris for an unexpected job opportunity. Bravo plays chef Gabriel, Emily’s neighbor and love interest.
In addition, Bravo is in production on the Anthony Fabian-directed drama, Mrs Harris Goes to Paris, alongside Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, and Jason Isaacs. It tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress and decides that she must have one of her own
Other credits include French thriller, L’Equipe, and Kim Chapiron’s Smart Ass.
Bravo continues to be repped by Definition Entertainment.
- 10/21/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
eOne is underway on Mrs Harris Goes To Paris, the period feature starring Oscar nominated pair Lesley Manville and Isabelle Huppert. Shoot is taking place in Budapest, Hungary, before transferring to London and Paris.
The project is based on Paul Gallico’s novella and is being directed by Anthony Fabian from a screenplay adapted by Carroll Cartwright, Anthony Fabian, and Keith Thompson with additional writing by Olivia Hetreed. It tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own. The cast also features Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, and Lucas Bravo.
Xavier Marchand (Moonriver Content), Guillaume Benski (Superbe Films) and Anthony Fabian (Elysian Films), will produce the feature, with Daniel Kresmery and Jonathan Halperyn of Hungary-based Hero Squared co-producing. Philippe Carcassonne and Lesley Manville will executive produce.
eOne...
The project is based on Paul Gallico’s novella and is being directed by Anthony Fabian from a screenplay adapted by Carroll Cartwright, Anthony Fabian, and Keith Thompson with additional writing by Olivia Hetreed. It tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own. The cast also features Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, and Lucas Bravo.
Xavier Marchand (Moonriver Content), Guillaume Benski (Superbe Films) and Anthony Fabian (Elysian Films), will produce the feature, with Daniel Kresmery and Jonathan Halperyn of Hungary-based Hero Squared co-producing. Philippe Carcassonne and Lesley Manville will executive produce.
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- 10/8/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo round out key cast.
Production has begun in Budapest on Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris starring Lesley Manville and Isabelle Huppert in their first appearance together.
Anthony Fabian directs from a screenplay adapted by Carroll Cartwright, Fabian, and Keith Thompson with additional writing by Olivia Hetreed.
The film will also shoot in London and Paris and is based on a novella by Paul Gallico about a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who works, starves and gambles to raise funds to travel to the Dior fashion house in France to buy the dress of her dreams.
Production has begun in Budapest on Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris starring Lesley Manville and Isabelle Huppert in their first appearance together.
Anthony Fabian directs from a screenplay adapted by Carroll Cartwright, Fabian, and Keith Thompson with additional writing by Olivia Hetreed.
The film will also shoot in London and Paris and is based on a novella by Paul Gallico about a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who works, starves and gambles to raise funds to travel to the Dior fashion house in France to buy the dress of her dreams.
- 10/8/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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