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.
- Year: 2007
- Country: Belgium, France
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Studio: Bel Ombre Films, Antigone Cinéma, Les Films de l'Etang, RTBF, TF1 Films Production, Renn Productions, Pathé
- Keyword: new love, based on novel or book, parent child relationship, department store, unexpected happiness, door, closing time, fate, author
- Director: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
- Cast: Catherine Frot, Albert Dupontel, Jacques Weber, Fabrice Murgia, Nina Drecq, Camille Japy