
Odette Toulemonde
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.
Top Billed Cast

Catherine Frot
Odette Toulemonde

Albert Dupontel
Balthazar Balsan

Jacques Weber
Olaf Pims
Fabrice Murgia
Rudy
Nina Drecq
Sue Ellen
Featured Crew

Philippe Vandendriessche
Sound Designer

Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Director
Corinne Jorry
Costume Design

Philippe Bourgueil
Editor

Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Screenplay
Gaspard de Chavagnac
Producer

Carlo Varini
Director of Photography
Bruno Metzger
Art Direction
Philippe Saal
Production Manager

Nicola Piovani
Original Music Composer
Gerda Diddens
Casting

Anne-Dominique Toussaint
Co-Producer