No Such Thing
by Hal Hartley
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Actor: Anna Krist?n Arngr?msd?ttir, Julie Anderson, Margr?t ?kad?ttir, Robert John Burke, Sarah PolleyDirector: Hal Hartley
Producer: Hal Hartley
Writer: Hal Hartley
Producer: Cecilia Kate Roque
Producer: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Fri?rik ??r Fri?riksson
Producer: Linda Reisman
Producer: Willi B?r
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Icelandic (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-07-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of No Such Thing
Movie Review: Not your usual beauty and the beast story...
Summary: 5 Stars
Very good. I really enjoyed this movie. No action scenes, no overtly sexual scenes. Just a movie that makes you think.
Summary of No Such Thing
Good and evil, love and hate collide in this captivating adventure from award-winning director Hal Hartley. Starring Sarah Polley (The Claim), Robert John Burke (Robocop 3), Academy Award? nominee* Helen Mirren (Gosford Park) and Academy Award? winner** Julie Christie (Dr. Zhivago), No Such Thing is a provocative and deeply moving film thatwill change the way you look at the world. New York journalist Beatrice (Polley) travels to Iceland to find a monster (Burke) believed to have killed her fianc?. Once she meets the beast, he opens her eyes to the horror of his existencehe has witnessed history from the dawn of time. Moved to help him, Beatrice takes the monster to New York. But when a media firestorm erupts, Beatrice realizesher monster is more than he appears to be and the world may not be ready for the truth. *Supporting Actress, Gosford Park (2001); Supporting Actress, The Madness of King George (1994). **Actress, Darling (1965).Writer-director Hal Hartley (Henry Fool, The Book of Life) has loosened his usual arch style, but the results are no less distinctive. Sarah Polley (Go, The Sweet Hereafter) plays Beatrice, a naive young reporter who is sent by a huge media conglomerate to investigate the disappearance of a camera crew in Iceland. Eventually she finds an immortal but depressed and alcoholic monster (Robert John Burke) who wants nothing more than to die. Beatrice agrees to help him find the one man who can kill him, and she draws the monster out into an invasive media spotlight. No Such Thing is maybe too ambitious; the story tackles not just the media and world unrest, but even the history of mankind. Still, like most of Hartley's work, the movie remains uniquely engaging, a delicate mix of irony and sincerity. Also starring Helen Mirren (Gosford Park) and Julie Christie (Afterglow). --Bret Fetzer
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