No Such Thing
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Helen Mirren, Julie Christie, Margrét Ákadóttir, Robert John Burke, Sarah Polley Director: Hal Hartley Producer: Hal Hartley Writer: Hal Hartley Producer: Cecilia Kate Roque Producer: Francis Ford Coppola Producer: Friđrik Ţór Friđriksson Producer: Linda Reisman Producer: Willi Bär DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Icelandic (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, 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) |
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Movie Reviews of No Such Thing
Movie Review: Cinematic Schizophrenia
Summary: 1 Stars
If Julie Christie made a dog food commercial, I'd probably watch it. However, "No Such Thing" is more cinematic schizophrenia rather than a beauty & the beast fairytale. There are so many things happening in this film, the sad truth is that they just don't hang together. Take the lead in the film, Sarah Polley who plays Beatrice. She is delightfully innocent and gives heart to what otherwise seems a heartless world. Yet when she returns to New York with the Monster, she parties all night, has casual sex with Carlo, a boy stud, and then gets put in a leather strap dress straight out of a sado-masochistic fantasy. Why? She must be schizophrenic. The wonderful Julie Christie as Dr. Anna works on Beatrice after she is the lone survivor of an airplane crash. (What the airplane crash and the extensive surgery had to do with the rest of the film, I never understood.) Then she leaves her surgical practice to go on holiday to the remote part of Iceland with Beatrice. After going so far, she says goodbye and turns around and leaves. Why? Schizophrenia. The also always marvelous Helen Mirren plays a great cold-blooded news hound boss always looking for an angle to make news. She barely notices when an entire news crew is murdered and disappears in remote Iceland, but flies the Atlantic to check on Beatrice who she has no clue how long has worked for her. Why? Schizophrenia. Baltasar Kormakur as Dr. Artaud was delightful with his thick little glasses and gives a nice moral at the end about monsters, but the movie as a whole has so many mixed signals that it doesn't work. The Icelandic scenery was beautiful. I did also enjoy Robert John Burke's acid-tongued Monster. All in all, this film is a waste of time and talent. The DVD neither ads nor subtracts to the viewing of the film. TAXI!