Nobody Else But You

A murder mystery/thriller... one of my very favorite genres of movie. Nobody Else But You is about two people... a small town starlit who believes she's the reincarnation of Marylin Monroe (Martine, played by Sophie Quinton) and a renowned crime writer looking for the inspiration for his next hit (David Rousseau, played by Jean-Paul Rouve). The interesting thing about this story is that the main character, Martine, is dead. She narrates the movie from the afterlife looking down on the living.

David Rousseau arrives in this small French town to find that Sophie's case has already been closed and ruled a suicide. Too many things are out of place for him to accept what he's told and leave her death unexplored. He goes to the morgue and gets permission to see her, saying he's family. In the eerily lit room of deceased bodies he opens slot number 5 and pulls out Sophie. Even blue and lifeless, you can still see the rising star that was once there. David observes a purple bruise under her right eye and needle mark on the inside of her right elbow before he is discovered and forced to leave. His snooping leads him to Sophie's house where he finds volume after volume of the diaries that she wrote in everyday. These diaries unlock the insides of her fascinating mind. In them David finds hints and clues, but most importantly they allow him to fall in love with someone he never has and never will meet. They bring to life a woman loved by all and understood by none only to remind David that someone cut her life short. In his exploration he makes many dangerous enemies, but also makes one ally... a young police officer who is as compelled as David is to expose the truth. The closer he gets, the more likely he is to sharing the same fate as Martine.

Nobody Else But You satisfied my craving for a gritty crime movie. It was well acted and realistic. Complicated enough to be interesting, but simple enough to be believable. It made me wish there was another movie about David Rousseau's next novel.