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.

• DirectorÉric-Emmanuel Schmitt
• Release7 February 2007
• Genre
  Comedy / Drama
• Duration1h 40m
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  5.667
  135 reviews
• Productions

  Bel Ombre Films, Antigone Cinéma, Les Films de l'Etang, RTBF, TF1 Films Production, Renn Productions, Pathé