This small British film stars stars Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson and jason Issacs among others. Its simple story is based on a book and follows a fairly predictable plot line. Lower class Mrs harris dreams of getting a Christian Dior dress in Paris and through a series of events both lucking and unlucky ends up at a private show ready to spend every cent she saved to live her dream. Many tings get in the way of course and she becomes a driving force in the other characters lives who mostly are trying to help her out being fascinated by her dream of buying a dress.
The films takes her through a lot of ups and downs but none of it resonated with me emotionally. The lead actress is very good but the plot points are cliché and I never once felt things were going to end badly. Maybe if the movie was shorter. Some of the production values were quite high looking but other times the economies forced by a smaller budget stuck out for me.
Should have been magical but ended up a little meh. Not boring, the actors keeps you interested with their performance and I thought Jason Issacs tried hard to give some depth to his character but it never reached my heart.
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