Odette Toulemonde

Plot Summary

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 Cast

Catherine Frot Odette Toulemonde

Albert Dupontel Balthazar Balsan

Jacques Weber Olaf Pims

Fabrice Murgia Rudy

Nina Drecq Sue Ellen