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.

Locked Out
2006
6.1/10

Jupiter's Thigh
1980
6.2/10

Headwinds
2011
5.8/10

Everyone's Life
2017
4.6/10

Royal Palace
2005
5.5/10

My Darling Clementine
1946
7.4/10

Bernie
1996
6.8/10

Haute Cuisine
2012
6.2/10

Chouchou
2003
5.3/10

I Do
2006
6.4/10

Angry Annie
2022
7.6/10

Back to Mom's
2016
5.7/10

French Women
2014
5.7/10

Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015
6.4/10

Stake Land
2010
6.2/10

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
2006
7.2/10

Diabolique
1955
7.9/10

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2012
6.9/10

The Assessment
2025
6.9/10

The Spanish Apartment
2002
7.1/10
Gossette
1923
5/10