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July 15 - 22, 2022 (Double Issue)

"I just thought, this is great. I can do a feel-good movie."

- H. Alan Scott

Lesley Manville

THERE ARE FILMS THAT ARE JUST SO DELIGHTFUL, THEY'RE NOT JUST FANtastic, they're fantastical. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (July 15) is just that, and Lesley Manville, playing the title character Ada Harris, turns in a magical performance as a 1950s British widow whose life mission becomes a Dior dress. "She wanted this dress for so long. It's been like an epic mission." Essential to the film was recreating the "iconic dresses" of that day, which the film did by collaborating with the House of Dior and the film's costume designer Jenny Beavan. "Everyone knows them from all the pictures." The Oscar-nominated actress (for 2017's Phantom Thread) is in high demand; she'll next be seen as Princess Margaret in Netflix&

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