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 Day-Lewis’s meticulous Pygmalion fantasies of what the well-dressed woman should wear. “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” allows Manville to be the one outside of the haute couture, looking in, and then striding right through the looking glass. This is the latest screen a…
