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Odette Toulemonde (2006)
director of photography:
Carlo Varini
cast:
Catherine Frot, Albert Dupontel, Jacques Weber, Fabrice Murgia, Nina Drecq, Camille Japy, Alain Doutey, Julien Frison
director:
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
running time:
100 min.
writer:
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
synopsis
Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isnt. Odette, awkwardly forty, with a delightful hairdresser son and a daughter bogged down in adolescence, spends her days behind the cosmetics 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.
Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isnt. Odette, awkwardly forty, with a delightful hairdresser son and a daughter bogged down in adolescence, spends her days behind the cosmetics 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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