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Odette Toulemonde

57%(147)IMDbComedyDrama

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.

Directed byÉric-Emmanuel Schmitt

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 40m
Language
FR
Released
February 7, 2007
Studios
Pathé Renn ProductionsTF1 Films ProductionRTBF

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ODETTE UNA COMEDIA SOBRE LA FELICIDAD (trailer)

ODETTE UNA COMEDIA SOBRE LA FELICIDAD (trailer)

Featuring

Cast & crew

9 credited
Starring
Catherine Frot

Catherine Frot

Odette Toulemonde

Albert Dupontel

Albert Dupontel

Balthazar Balsan

Jacques Weber

Jacques Weber

Olaf Pims

Fabrice Murgia

Rudy

Nina Drecq

Sue Ellen

Camille Japy

Camille Japy

Nadine

Alain Doutey

Alain Doutey

Verleger

Julien Frison

Julien Frison

Francois

Laurence d'Amelio

Isabelle

Creative team
Directed by
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Written by
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Produced by
Gaspard de Chavagnac
Alain-Gilles Viellevoye
Alain-Gilles Viellevoye

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