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Odette Toulemonde

Not Rated Comedy Drama

Starring: Catherine Frot, Albert Dupontel, Jacques Weber, Fabrice Murgia, Nina Drecq

Writer: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Release Date:
February 7, 2007
Ratings:
5.6 / 10
Director:
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Companies:
Bel Ombre Films

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.