Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

Slight it may be, but there is something truly irresistible about Peter Sollett's tale of youth, romance and music in New York City.

Nick (Michael Cera) and Norah (Kat Dennings) are two fumbling high school students growing up in New Jersey and forever communicating in that irony-soaked manner that is at once their making and their undoing (see also Juno, Superbad etc etc).

She's the smart-alec daughter of a music industry bigwig who questions anyone's desire to be her friend, has a semi-boyfriend (Jay Baruchel) but is largely sneered at by her peers. He's the shy, understated wise-cracker who's just been dumped by Norah's schoolmate Tris (Alex Dziena).

Both share an obsession with music, notably an elusive band named Where's Fluffy? And over the course of a single evening they join together to pursue their favourite group across town.

The story is inevitable of course, a combination of revenge and romance and rock music, yet this does not detract from its substantial charm, nor indeed its splendid soundtrack. ·