Nobody Else But You (2011)
"Poupoupidou" (original title)

A bestselling crime novelist who is desperately looking for a new story hones his focus on the apparent suicide of a small-town woman, an aspiring model who thought she was the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe.

Director:

Gérald Hustache-Mathieu

Writers:

Gérald Hustache-Mathieu, Juliette Sales (contributing writer)

Stars:

Jean-Paul Rouve, Sophie Quinton, Guillaume Gouix

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jean-Paul Rouve	...	David Rousseau
Sophie Quinton	...	Martine Langevin, dite Candice Lecoeur
Guillaume Gouix	...	Brigadier Bruno Leloup
Olivier Rabourdin	...	Commandant Colbert
Clara Ponsot	...	La réceptionniste
Arsinée Khanjian	...	Dr. Juliette Geminy
Eric Ruf	...	Simon Denner
Lyès Salem	...	Gus
Joséphine de Meaux	...	Cathy
Ken Samuels	...	Jean-François Burdeau
Antoine Chappey	...	Bernard-Olivier Burdeau
Frédéric Quiring	...	Clément Leprince (as Fred Quiring)
Nicolas Robin	...	Julien Charlemagne
Milo Hustache-Mathieu	...	Julien Charlemagne (11 ans)
Anne Le Ny	...	Victoria Principal (voice)

Storyline

"Rousseau" is a Parisian bestselling crime novelist, working on a new novel but desperately looking for a good story. "Candice Lecoeur" is a young, attractive, and vibrant woman who thinks she is the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe. But Candice is living far away from the city. Born in a remote area of France, she manages to become a model for the small cheese factory based in the area. She becomes a star; but only a local one. The two will meet but only after Candice has been found dead. Cause of death: suicide by sleeping pills. Rousseau is the only one who doesn't buy it and who wants to know the true cause of her death. In his search for the truth, he will be confronted with many difficulties: becoming a detective-novelist and getting respect from the locals, and going beyond what some people want to keep secret forever.

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Plot Keywords:

cheese | dead body | snow | jura | drug | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Crime | Mystery

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Diaphana [fr]

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

11 May 2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

Nobody Else But You

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$3,759 (USA) (11 May 2012)

Gross:

$42,580 (USA) (12 October 2012)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dharamsala, France 2 Cinéma, Banque Postale Image 3, La

Technical Specs

Runtime:

102 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Black and White Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The song Martine/Candice sings is "I Wanna Be Loved By You". Debbie Reynolds sang this in the movie 'Three Little Words' although in that movie, in spite of her excellent singing voice, she was dubbed by Helen Kane, the original Boop Boop a Doop girl.

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Goofs

The dates listed in the diary entries are consistently wrong. For example, November 20, 1999, was not a Tuesday (it was a Saturday), and October 13, 2001, was not a Thursday (it was also a Saturday.)

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Soundtracks

"Pure Princess"
(Gérald Hustache-Mathieu / Stéphane Lopez)
Interprété par The Ermitage's Girls

User Reviews

No Other Film but This

Often a film critic references another film/actor/director in a review to give the reader some sense of the style of film one might expect. (ie: "Hitchcock-ian," "Spielberg-ian," "Uwe Boll-of-Crap," etc.) I'm guilty of this myself. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it hurts. The comparison often leads an audience to go into a film with certain expectations that are often unfulfilled.

Such is how it has been with "Nobody Else but You," a French film now in general release. The material I received when previewing this film compares it to a couple of films/TV shows and I think that, in this case, it does a disservice to the film. I found "Nobody Else but You" to be a winningly original, highly entertaining film and an absolute rarity – a mystery that doesn't telegraph its ending and manages to keep its reveal to the very (satisfying) end.

Set in small town France in the dead of winter - isn't winter the best season for mysteries? - Jean-Paul Rouve plays a mystery writer (with writer's block, of course) who arrives in town for the reading of a will. After disposing of his inheritance, he hits the road and comes upon a very unusual scene – a crime scene - the apparent suicide of the celebrity "spokesmodel" for the local dairy (Sophie Quinton.) What's a mystery writer to do? Investigate!

And so it begins. Yes, I know what you're thinking. None of this seems very original, but it's not the stock components (suicide/murder/writer's block/narration from beyond the grave, etc.) that make this film. It's what director Gerald Hustache-Mathieu does with them. He takes these hackneyed elements and constructs something new and refreshing around them – and he does it by taking all these mystery fundamentals and inserting them (in a very original way) into what we know about some very famous people.

I mean, when's the last time you saw a really good film that combined all those elements with the world's endearing obsession with Marilyn Monroe, her gay iconic status, her relationship with the Kennedys, the mystery surrounding her death and modern French politics - all set to the beat of a kick-ass soundtrack?

You haven't. Till now.

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