Nobody Else But You

Neo-noir fun, with a playful pulp paperback sensibility, Nobody Else But You is a stylish comic whodunit-cum-romance that pays tribute to a host of thriller writers – and, as the title suggests, to the memory of Marilyn Monroe. Jean-Paul Rouve plays David, a crime novelist who finds himself stuck without inspiration and stranded in Mouthe, a snowbound commune in Eastern France. He arrives just as the region has lost its local celebrity, bottle-blonde weather girl Candice, under mysterious circumstances. Realising that there’s a book in it for him, David finds that many of the locals have something to hide – but more importantly, he comes closer than anyone to knowing the secrets of a misunderstood small-town girl whose own story has unnerving parallels with the Monroe legend. This witty entertainment riffs cheerfully on thriller conventions while taking its story seriously, and a fine cast is headed by the affably battered Rouve and Sophie Quinton as the mercurial Candice. The white-blanketed snowscapes bring inescapable echoes of Fargo, but Pierre Cottereau’s superb photography gives the film its own vivid comic-strip sensibility. –BFI