I'd never heard of Odette! That sounds like an amazing Ustinov performance.

He's wonderful! He gets to be funny, but in the way of people you have known for so long that for better or worse they are as good as family, exasperations and all. And he's young and looks much better than he has any right to slopping around in a leather-belted mac and a shirt whose plaid even in black and white doesn't go with his tie.