
Plot
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.
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Cast

Catherine Frot
Odette Toulemonde

Albert Dupontel
Balthazar Balsan

Jacques Weber
Olaf Pims

Fabrice Murgia
Rudy

Nina Drecq
Sue Ellen

Camille Japy
Nadine

Alain Doutey
Verleger

Julien Frison
Francois

Laurence d'Amelio
Isabelle