Mrs Harris Goes to Paris - the movie hug of the year

"We need our dreams - now more than ever."

Never a truer word spoken - and never in a nicer film than this grown-up Cinderella story, set in 1957 and thoroughly deserving of its place in the pantheon of timeless feelgood favourites.

Watch our interview with Mrs Harris Goes to Paris director Anthony Fabian below:

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Lesley Manville shines brighter than the City of Light as Ada Harris, a widowed Londoner who comes into a bit of money, makes her way to Dior HQ and informs the couturiers that she wants to buy a dress.

As Ada's magic rubs off on the strangers she meets, she becomes younger by the minute. Watching, you'll be a few years to the good too.

Just like the best of movies from back in the day, Mrs Harris Goes to Paris manages to fit a lot of stuff in between the fittings. Grief, loneliness, depression, petty cruelty and the shackles of the class system are all explored in this adaptation of Paul Gallico's 1958 book. Now as then, if anyone can teach us a thing or two about resilience, it's Ada.

Icily brilliant in Phantom Thread, heart-rending in Ordinary Love, terrifying in Let Him Go and now dazzling as the BFF from Battersea, Lesley Manville wraps both arms around this role - and us - to deliver the message that the only wealth that's really worth anything, in the long run, is kindness.

Watch our interview with Mrs Harris Goes to Paris star Ellen Thomas below:

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It's a global currency shipped by the tonne here, with the supporting cast equally superb at the import/export. Hopefully, business will also be booming close to home after the closing credits.

And that ending, well... it's truly the stuff that dreams are made of.

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