Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, shows no one is too old to dream

Mrs.Harris Goes to Paris will give you warm fuzzy feelings. Unlike that Netflix show about a Girl named Emily that people loves to hate watch. It is based from a novel of Paul Gallico of the same title. If  this movie will be successful, we can expect sequels because the novel is part of a  quadrilogy.

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Ada Harris (Lesley Manville) is a widowed Housemaid from London who served people all her life. After the death of her husband, she never had time for herself. She saw her employer purchase an expensive Christian Dior couture dress one day. It is worth 500 British Pounds, which is too costly in the novel’s setting in the late 1950s. She fell in love with the dress and wanted to have one of her own.

Mrs. Harris cleaned houses and scrubbed floors for months because she wanted to afford to buy the dress from the House of Dior. 

 Her Obsession with affording an expensive dress even leads to her starving herself. It reminds me of those lower-middle-class kids who save cash to afford an iPhone. She also needed to save more money to buy a plane ticket and have pocket money for Paris. Back then, you need to go to Paris, France, if you want to buy a Christian Dior Dress.

In a way, there is a Mrs. Harris in all of us. There is this expensive object we save money for, but whenever we are about to buy it, a misfortune stops us. Having money may not be enough to buy a Dior Dress. After all, she will face discrimination because she is not an upper-class woman. That will not stop her from trying to buy the dress of her dreams. Focus Features will release Mrs. Harris going to Paris this July 15, 2022.