Nobody Else But You
Poupoupidou
France
2011
102 Min
Color
2.35:1
French
Synopsis
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
Director
Gérald Hustache-Mathieu
Gérald Hustache-Mathieu was born in 1968 in Grenoble, France. After studying science in college, he devoted himself to being an assistant director on various short and feature length films. His directorial debut, the short film Peau de vache (“Cowhide”), was selected by nearly fifty film festivals and won dozens of prizes. The film was nominated for the 2002 San Francisco Golden Gate Award and the 2001 European Film Award, and won the 2003 César Award for Best Short Film. Shot in 2002, his second short La chatte andalouse also met with strong success in festivals and was nominated for a César in 2004. Hustache-Mathieu’s first feature length film, Avril (“April in Love”), was released in France in 2006. Variety called it “a pleasingly peculiar blend of sacred and profane that’s quite unlike the vast majority of contempo French films.” Nobody Else But You (“Poupoupidou”) is the director’s fourth film, and his fourth to star his favorite actress, Sophie Quinton. The film received a Gold… read more
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"Poupoupidou" (Nobody Else But You)
By Wilsonjd2 on April 8, 2012
“Poupoupidou” begins with a series of close-up images of a beautiful blonde woman in a wispy white dress. She looks like Marilyn Monroe, and as she sings a seductive, raspy rendition of “I Put a Spell… read review
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