

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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 7, 2007
- Original language
- French
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- Belgium, France
- Production
- TF1 Films Production,RTBF,Pathé Renn Productions,Bel Ombre Films,Antigone Cinéma,Les Films de l'Etang
- Cast
- Catherine Frot,Laurence d'Amelio,Nina Drecq,Fabrice Murgia,Jacques Weber,Julien Frison,Albert Dupontel,Camille Japy,Alain Doutey
- Director
- Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
- Writer
- Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
- Producer
- Alain-Gilles Viellevoye,Alexandre Lippens,Geneviève Lemal,Gaspard de Chavagnac,Olivier Rausin
- Cinematography
- Carlo Varini
- Music
- Nicola Piovani
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
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