Odette Toulemonde

• Rated 5.7 out of 10
• Movie
• 2007
• 1h 40m
• Comedy
• Drama

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

Starring

Catherine Frot, Albert Dupontel, Jacques Weber, Fabrice Murgia