The Mystery of Henri Pick

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.

Cast

Fabrice Luchini

as Jean Michel Rouche

Camille Cottin

as Joséphine Pick

Alice Isaaz

as Daphné Despero

Bastien Bouillon

as Fred Koskas

Philypa Phoenix

as Wendy Bellamy

Louis Descols

as Vicomte d'Archiac

Josiane Stoléru

as Madeleine Pick

Astrid Whettnall

as Inès de Crécy

Hanna Schygulla

as Ludmila Blavitsky

Marie-Christine Orry

as Magali Roze, la bibliothécaire

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