Film Review

‘Mrs Harris Goes to Paris’ is a delightful tale of dreams coming true

It's a piece of wonderfully old-fashioned escapism in the wake of pandemic restrictions and uncertainty

09 October 2022 - 00:00

Paul Gallico’s intergenerational popular novel about his most famous character: the down-to-earth, kind, old-fashioned working class cockney charwoman, Mrs ‘Arris and her trip to Paris in the 1950s to buy her once-in-a-lifetime dream frock from the House of Dior, may seem an oddly dated choice for a film adaptation in 2022...

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