2023-08-25 06:39:56
An Englishwoman’s kindness, optimism and love: life and challenges in an entertaining film
Everything in “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” (2022, 116 minutes), by the British Anthony Fabian, suggests smooth living, beautiful coincidences, simplicity that overcomes insolence and arrogance, and a smile that triumphs over badness and cruelty. All of this is happening, despite a beginning full of sorrow felt by Ida Harris (Lesley Manville), and diary difficulties that she faces in London, in the fifties of the twentieth century, that is, a few years following the end of World War II (1939-1945), which (war) produces compelling effects. And humiliating to millions of people, especially the poor among them.
Ida is a housemaid: she cleans and arranges brilliantly, sews clothes, and most of her work takes place in the homes of wealthy people, who refuse to pay those who are required to do housework, although there are those who do not hesitate to pay 500 pounds sterling (a large sum at that time, for people like Ida Exactly) the price of a gorgeous dress made by French Christian Dior. A dress that will turn the life of that woman, who awaits the return of her husband whom she loves from that war, before she is officially informed of his death months before its end. A dress that evokes in herself and her feelings of awe and passion, and sparks in her imagination the dream of obtaining a similar one from the same institution. This means that she has to manage the costs of traveling to Paris, and the price of the dress.
You lose a £100 bet on a dog race. She fails to receive her financial dues. She delivers a precious ring, which she found on a rainy night, to the Lost and Found office. But her dream is strong, and her desire to achieve it is even stronger. Suddenly, things take a turn: her boyfriend, Archie (Jason Isaacs), who works at the pawnshop (he tries to stop her from betting, to no avail) “swindles” his manager, betting Ida’s money and winning (he’ll give her all the money). The owner of the ring assigns a representative from the Lost and Found Office to give it to her (the ring). A dispatcher from the royal army visits her, informing her that she has unpaid financial dues for her husband’s services.
So, “life is pink,” as they say. Suddenly, the colors of the scenes change from the London gray to the Parisian oriental. In the French capital, whose streets are filled with rubbish due to the strike of the cleaning workers, Ida will not encounter a single problem: everyone she meets helps her, although some drunks “mock” the “Mrs. Dior”, without giving up their sympathy and help for her. Her goodness is stronger. Her smile and optimism overcome obstacles. Her entrance into the Dior institution is very smooth, and the Marche de Chassagne (Lambert Wilson) intervenes at the right moment, helping her to attend a fashion show, despite the harshness of Madame Claudine Colbert (Isabelle Huppert), the arrogant, arrogant and hot-tempered director (these are descriptions required, perhaps, to run an institution like this). . She chooses a dress, but Madame Avalon (Glan Lundy), a wealthy French woman who hates her for her poverty and lack of social class like herself, “steals” it from her. Once once more, good luck intervenes, and it is agreed to sew another dress for her as soon as possible.
While waiting for the dress to be finished, Ida lives beautiful and quiet days in Paris. Discover the city and its people. Get to know nature and listen to stories. She cares regarding those who care regarding her, such as accountant Andre Foval (Luca Bravo). She helps her helpers, like young model Natasha (Alba Batista). A good heart removes restrictions and eliminates barriers, and a piercing look – from two eyes that radiate love and glow with intelligence – is sufficient to understand what is hidden or implicit, so it works to reveal it quietly and deliberately, for the benefit of the people around it. She strictly adheres to the conditions of poor people and defends the workers / workers in “Dior”, and leads them to the owner of the institution, who, thanks to her, will agree to Fuval’s plan to save the institution from its crisis.
New Anthony Fabian, co-writing the screenplay with Carroll Curtwright, Keith Timpson and Olivia Hatred, and adapted from “Mrs. However, he is indifferent to a comparison between two cities, although words are said between dialogues and not in them, trying to point out differences at different levels. The filth of Paris comes from corruption, and the good Englishwoman (Ida herself) saves an institution and people, and tolerates her former persecutor. The French marquee’s sympathy for the English hardworking worker is caused by her reminding him of a French maid who takes care of him as a child, and this offends her, so she abandons him quickly.
After returning to London and meeting up with her only friend, Violet (Ellen Thomas), she helps young Pamela Penrose (Rose Williams), who works at her house. The help is invaluable: she gives her a “Dior dress” for the evening Pamela needs. But a fire burns him, and her heart, dream and tiredness burn as well. English goodness meets French kindness: Christian Dior personally supervises the preparation of another dress for her, and sends it to her, following reading the news in a newspaper.
A movie like this is watched, for its ability to provide accompanying entertainment, smooth narration, situations and relationships, although what is hidden in the dramatic content says that simplicity, optimism, smile, honesty and kindness are useful, required and necessary, especially at a later stage on a war that creates tragedies, setbacks, disappointments, grudges and pain.
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