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Today's film was the French

Poupoupidou / Nobody Else But You (2012)

This is a wonderful comedy film/noir in a covering of snow.

A novelist/gumshoe gets stuck in a small town on the French/Swiss border and falls into a case of suicide which is not.

Desperate for ideas for a new book, he takes interest and eventually finds himself hip deep in a snow job.

What is very good about this film are the characters. One, the corpse, is a Marilyn fanatic who has designed her life to model her heroine.

In this respect it is similar to the movie Marilyn which I saw recently, but this film goes to extra lengths which will turn out to be prophetic.

Flashbacks with the dead lady telling her story, a rogue cop who decides to help the author despite his boss' prohibition and so on.

Lots of tongue in cheek. You have to watch carefully or you will miss some of the fun.

I liked it a lot and would not mind seeing it again. Especially the young cop who turns out to have a story of his own.

Labels: films