Odette Toulemonde (2007)
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.
Director:
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Writer:
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
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Catherine Frot as Odette Toulemonde |
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Albert Dupontel as Balthazar Balsan |
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Jacques Weber as Olaf Pims |
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Fabrice Murgia as Rudy |
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Nina Drecq as Sue Ellen |
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Camille Japy as Nadine |
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Alain Doutey as Verleger |
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Julien Frison as Francois |
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Laurence d'Amelio as Isabelle |
| Directing | Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt | Director |
| Writing | Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt | Screenplay |
| Production | Gaspard de Chavagnac | Producer |
| Camera | Carlo Varini | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Philippe Bourgueil | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Corinne Jorry | Costume Design |
| Sound | Philippe Vandendriessche | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Nicola Piovani | Original Music Composer |
| Art | François Chauvaud | Production Design |
| Art | Bruno Metzger | Art Direction |
| Production | Philippe Saal | Production Manager |
| Production | Romain Le Grand | Co-Producer |
| Production | Anne-Dominique Toussaint | Co-Producer |
| Production | Bruno Delahaye | Casting |
| Production | Gerda Diddens | Casting |
| Costume & Make-Up | Rebecca Flores | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Anne Moralis | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Anne Moralis | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Jonathan Liebling | Foley Artist |
| Production | Alain-Gilles Viellevoye | Producer |
| Production | Olivier Rausin | Executive Producer |
| Production | Alexandre Lippens | Executive Producer |
| Production | Geneviève Lemal | Executive Producer |