Released:
2007-02-07

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.

Director:
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Runtime:
1h 40min

Genre:
Comedy, Drama

• 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