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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nancy Durrant

Cultural Capital: Mexico festival at Kew Gardens and Mrs Harris Goes to Paris

Welcome to the new edition of Cultural Capital.

This week, we’re down at Kew Gardens to capture a bit of sunshine at their Mexico Festival; our Thing of the Week is a frankly horrible little room that I’m now terrified of seeing ever again and I’ll be reviewing Lesley Manville’s sweet new movie, Mrs Harris Goes to Paris, based on Paul Gallico’s 1958 novel about a London cleaning lady who falls in love with a Christian Dior dress. Haven’t we all?

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