The read
A Balasaur Score of 73 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.7/10, Rotten Tomatoes 92%. Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 83% of the 7,176 2010s drama movies in this catalog. Streaming on Prime.
Synopsis
In a bizarre Breton library that collects rejected, never published manuscripts, a young editor discovers a novel that she considers a masterpiece. It was written by a certain Henri Pick, a cook who died two years earlier and who, according to his widow, had never read a book in his life or written anything but a shopping list... Did he have a secret life? When the book becomes a huge best-seller, Jean- Michel Rouche, a skeptical and stubborn literary critic, teams up with Joséphine, Pick’s daughter, to unravel the mystery.
Ratings
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do.
491 audience votes
Key crew
- Rémi BezançonDirector
- Rémi BezançonWriter
- Vanessa PortalWriter
Cast
- Fabrice LuchiniJean Michel Rouche
- Camille CottinJoséphine Pick
- Alice IsaazDaphné Despero
- Bastien BouillonFred Koskas
- Philypa PhoenixWendy Bellamy
- Louis DescolsVicomte d'Archiac
- Josiane StoléruMadeleine Pick
- Astrid WhettnallInès de Crécy
- Hanna SchygullaLudmila Blavitsky
- Marie-Christine OrryMagali Roze, la bibliothécaire
- Vincent WinterhalterGérard Despero
- Florence MullerBrigitte Rouche
