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.
Catherine Frot
as Odette Toulemonde
Albert Dupontel
as Balthazar Balsan
Jacques Weber
as Olaf Pims
Fabrice Murgia
as Rudy
Nina Drecq
as Sue Ellen
Camille Japy
as Nadine
Alain Doutey
as Verleger
Julien Frison
as Francois
Laurence d'Amelio
as Isabelle
