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In “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” a middle-aged woman of very limited means in post-World War II London dreams of owning a Christian Dior gown

We could all use a little escapism right now, especially when the escapism in question is as exceedingly pleasant as Anthony Fabian’s “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” starring the luminous Lesley Manville as a cleaning lady from London who takes a trip to Paris to see about a frock. It’s…

Neither hambone nor underplayer, Lesley Manville gives tremendous value for the money. Her classical chops, coupled with a shrewd improviser’s wiles honed in the films of Mike Leigh, have elevated so many projects, among them Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread,” in which Manville played the impeccably coifed gatekeeper to Daniel…

Lesley Manville charms as the good-natured London heroine, smiling her way through the saturated colors of postwar Paris.