Overview
Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isn’t. Odette, awkwardly forty, with a delightful hairdresser son and a daughter bogged down in adolescence, spends her days behind the cosmetic’s counter in a department store and her nights sewing feathers on costumes for Parisian variety shows. She dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite author, to whom – she believes – she owes her optimism. The rich and charming Parisian writer then turns up in her life in an unexpected way.
Cast
- Catherine Frot as Odette Toulemonde
- Albert Dupontel as Balthazar Balsan
- Jacques Weber as Olaf Pims
- Fabrice Murgia as Rudy
- Nina Drecq as Sue Ellen
- Camille Japy as Nadine
- Alain Doutey as Verleger
- Julien Frison as Francois
- Laurence d'Amelio as Isabelle