I thought this was an absolutely delightful film with beautiful costumes. Did you see it and if so, what did you think of it?

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July 12, 2023 9:25 PM

Yes. We watched it a few weeks ago. It's a delightful and goodhearted film.

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April 5, 2023 9:24 PM

Everything looks great, but I would've thought costume designer Jenny Beaven would've been sick to death of Dior (for the time being) after "Cruella".

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April 5, 2023 9:28 PM

Saw it on a plane and thought it was a delightful film, I even ordered it on CD so that my mother could watch it and she also enjoyed it.

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April 5, 2023 9:29 PM

Saw it a few weeks ago - charming and quite lovely.

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April 5, 2023 9:29 PM

Yes, R4 -- I suggested it to my mom also.

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April 5, 2023 9:31 PM

The Angela Lansbury version was MUCH better.

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April 5, 2023 9:31 PM

I thought it was a charming and sweet movie.

The fashion show has some beautiful clothing from that period.

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April 5, 2023 9:32 PM

Lesley Manville is delightful. She really should by Britain’s next theatrical Dame.

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reply 10

April 5, 2023 9:53 PM

Lesley Manville is brilliant. She was the best thing about that shit movie “Let Him Go.”

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April 5, 2023 10:25 PM

And paired brilliantly with the underrated Dame Ruth Sheen* in Another Year.

*Ok, Ruth Sheen isn’t a dame, but she’s also a brilliant actress and should be honored.

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April 5, 2023 10:27 PM

I wish Olivia Colman would stop squatting on every role offered to her, so maybe Lesley (and others) could work more.

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reply 14

April 6, 2023 4:13 AM

Made me ball like a hormonal 15 year old...delightful film.

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reply 15

April 6, 2023 4:15 AM

Whoa, this movie made you…horny?

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April 6, 2023 4:17 AM

I’m confused, I thought the 1970’s Versailles fashion show was somewhat revolutionary in bringing African American models onto the Paris runway, but this movie is showing Black models and even an Asian one in a 1950s Dior show? Is that period accurate?

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April 13, 2023 2:57 AM

r17 There were a couple asians but Dior only had one black woman, who was fairly light skinned and used primarily in print ads.

But the industry has quotas. (legitimately, you'll be turned away from awards. On the plus side, tho, they usually get financial compensation in the way that such often performers or workers may even be outright free, paid from a third party fund, so the budget can go elsewhere without sacrificing roles or staff)

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April 13, 2023 3:22 AM

I think the one red dress is stunning.

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reply 19

April 13, 2023 3:25 AM

Wait! This turns into Norma Rae?

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April 13, 2023 3:28 AM

OK, so this movie is about the invention of prêt-à-porter?

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reply 21

April 13, 2023 3:33 AM

Do you think they let Leslie Manville keep the dress after they finished filming? Did she get to wear it to the movie premiere perhaps?

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reply 22

April 13, 2023 3:39 AM

Wait? Now it turns into the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, where the dress becomes magical and fits everyone who wears it?

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April 13, 2023 3:43 AM

[quote]Do you think they let Leslie Manville keep the dress after they finished filming? Did she get to wear it to the movie premiere perhaps?

Only Vivian Vance wore her costumes to awards shows.

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April 13, 2023 3:44 AM

Christ! It goes up in flames??? I get that the dress is a metaphor, I’m just not sure what the meaning of is though?

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reply 25

April 13, 2023 3:47 AM

and Im so happy the boring boy from Emily got more work. Bland is 2023

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reply 26

April 13, 2023 3:51 AM

She’s dirt poor, but has original hand block printed William Morris wallpaper in her house?

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reply 27

April 13, 2023 3:52 AM

Well, I’m glad that Paris garbage strike worked back into the plot, it was so heavy handedly worked in the plot that it became exhausting.

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April 13, 2023 3:54 AM

I read all the Mrs Harris books. I loved them all. Wasn't Paul Gallico a priest?

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reply 29

April 13, 2023 4:08 AM

R10 No, there's something common about her.

And she bears the stigma of being involved with smelly Mike Leigh.

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April 13, 2023 4:14 AM

R23 No, it's not a magic dress that fits everyone. As is made clear in the movie, the Dior staff had Harris's measurements on file and re-cut the dress to fit. At one point, even the chief of the dress-makers mention Harris had a model's figure. So, no biggie.

I loved this movie. I worked at a tiny hometown movie house last summer and was able to sneak a peek at every show. I also bought the Blu-ray disc. I think Manville deserved more recognition for her work. She was sublime.

IRL, I read Dior died soon after his 10th anniversary show.

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April 13, 2023 4:17 AM

I adored Herbert Marshall's reading of this tearjerker by Gallico.

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April 13, 2023 4:20 AM

R31 No, I mean the green dress she lends to the very buxom blonde girl, there wasn’t even mention of letting out seams for her to fit.

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reply 33

April 13, 2023 4:27 AM

Is this Mrs. Harris a Cockney scrubber?

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April 13, 2023 4:46 AM

[quote]r29 Wasn't Paul Gallico a priest?

He was married four times.

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April 13, 2023 5:48 AM

The kind of movie they used to make, but don't anymore. A heartwarming story with a middle-aged heroine generally gets the Hallmark trash treatment these days. This had the kind of A+ acting and production values you'd have seen in the 30s-50s.

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April 13, 2023 7:01 AM

And the men were gorg, girl! I had me a few of 'em!

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April 13, 2023 7:08 AM

R37 I agree but the formula is exhausted. Like any good genre picture you need something fresh to liven up the tropes. The film hits all its marks but doesn't really move beyond them.

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reply 39

April 13, 2023 3:59 PM

As expected now, historically anachronistic and distracting BAME casting.

I bailed after half an hour.

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reply 40

April 13, 2023 4:24 PM

The story was just stupid. Hick British woman comes to cosmopolitan Paris, charms everyone, and saves a fashion house.

Please

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reply 41

April 13, 2023 4:26 PM

R41 That's what I was afraid of...and why I haven't watched it. I do love her, but this looks cornball as Hell.

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reply 42

April 13, 2023 4:43 PM

I love Gallico's The Snow Goose. I was happy when they did a TV version.

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reply 43

April 13, 2023 4:51 PM

I wonder why they changed the name from "Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris"

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reply 44

April 13, 2023 6:00 PM

Maybe it's dialectically incorrect, r44.

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reply 45

April 13, 2023 6:05 PM

So, she was Cockney in the original, but what was supposed to be her background in this telling? The accent seemed very mainstreamed and not regionally identifiable.

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reply 46

April 13, 2023 6:09 PM

It tried too hard to be quaint, yet it was charming enough to pull it off. A sweetly cutesy film with pretty boys and amazing dresses, nothing more.

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reply 47

April 13, 2023 6:32 PM

Paul Gallico is a delicate writer, r47.

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reply 48

April 13, 2023 6:33 PM

R47 Is that you, Janet Margolin?

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reply 49

April 13, 2023 7:14 PM

[quote] Like any good genre picture you need something fresh to liven up the tropes

Failing that, a new generation of viewers or two.

R44 r45 Mrs Harris is a cockney charwoman. She pronounces her name 'arris. It's like Eliza saying 'urricanes 'ardly 'appen.

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reply 50

April 13, 2023 7:19 PM

Ah this was one of several TV movies Angela starred in during the summer breaks from Murder, She Wrote! It even had Fred Elliot from Coronation Street as the French villain!

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reply 51

April 13, 2023 7:24 PM

Having seen the Angela Lansbury version, I looked forward to this one and couldn't wait to see it. I love Leslie Manville and I expected to love it, but I was severely disappointed. It is definitely a "don't bother" for me. Far too hokey and simple-minded. The original story is enough of a fairytale; they really overdid it in this adaptation.

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reply 52

April 13, 2023 7:32 PM

Gallico wrote The Poseidon Adventure as well.

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April 13, 2023 7:39 PM

r45 why do you think it was dialectically incorrect.

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reply 55

April 13, 2023 7:49 PM

I don't, r55, I was going for a play on words which obviously failed, thank you very much.

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reply 56

April 13, 2023 8:07 PM

You meant diacritically rather than dialectically, didn't you?

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reply 57

April 13, 2023 8:13 PM

He meant dialect as in cockney. No, that Wordplay didn't work r56

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reply 58

April 13, 2023 8:15 PM

I preferred the second-choice emerald & silver dress to the red & black "Temptation" one.

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reply 59

April 13, 2023 8:39 PM

R30 Leslie Manville and all her film roles celebrating the English Welfare Class are parodied here.

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reply 60

April 13, 2023 8:53 PM

'Ere stop usin' them bleedin' big words, you ain't 'arf givin' me earache!

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reply 62

April 14, 2023 6:21 AM

I finally saw this today. I was expecting it to be sweet and mildly amusing but I thought it was pretty awful. The script actually had a British widow in 1957 saying “you go, girl.”

I need to watch something gritty to cleanse myself.

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July 12, 2023 9:25 PM