Not even the presence of a goth-chick hotel clerk could turn Nobody Else But You into "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." The movie may teeter on the edge of Switzerland, but its playful sensibility is entirely French.
Nobody Else But You has a great deal going for it, not the least of which is Rouve, who takes the novelist's obsessiveness, depression and general boorishness and turns it all into the source of his appeal.
While Nobody Else But You aspires to a kind of French Fargo, it forgets the primary qualities that made that film work.
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San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Nobody Else But You takes a novel concept and a willing leading lady and squanders both through drab, lifeless storytelling.
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Time OutDavid Fear
Time OutDavid Fear
Filmmaker Gérald Hustache-Mathieu has fun recasting Monroevian moments and setting up parallels between the fromage-hawking hottie and the late silver-screen sex symbol - bring on the Miller, DiMaggio and JFK avatars.