Odette, una comedia sobre la felicidad (5.7)

Movie · 2007 · 1 h 44 min · Comedy, Drama

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 by: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Starring Catherine Frot, Albert Dupontel, Jacques Weber, Fabrice Murgia, Nina Drecq, Camille Japy, Alain Doutey, Julien Frison, Laurence d'Amelio

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