No Such Thing

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No Such Thing

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No Such Thing

Baltasar Kormákur, Erica Gimpel, Helen Mirren, Julie Anderson, Julie Christie

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...( read more  read more... )) 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

Id: 10896316

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  • FanGirl
    March 25, 2007
    FanGirl
    A very unusual film and well worth your time.
  • CHILIcheeseDONUTSwithTUNAonTOP
    October 20, 2009
    CHILIcheeseDONUTSwithTUNAonTOP
    A young journalist takes her first assignment to investigate the disappearance of a film crew who went looking for a monster in Iceland. She discovers the monster who killed and dismembered the crew along with many other people. He is ancient and immortal, but very distraught. Sh...( read more)e comforts him and they decide to return to civilization to locate a scientist who claims he has a way of completely destroying matter. Too much fluff and no real character development. More focus should have been put on the two main characters, but it seemed to have been filled with things that didnt move the plot along, only made it feature length.
  • raskull
    August 20, 2009
    raskull
    It's so bad its funny.
  • ralch
    January 25, 2009
    ralch
    PAN AND SCAN. Requiere una cierta disposición para verla. No es lo mejor que ha hecho Hal Hartley, pero su deliberado sentido del absurdo, lo anticlimático y lo pretencioso trabaja algo bueno con esta premisa. / Demands a certain disposition to see it. It is not the best Hal Hart...( read more)ley has made, but his deliberate sense of the absurd, the anticlimactic and the pretentious works something good with this premise.
  • Soundsofmadness
    January 10, 2009
    Soundsofmadness
    No thankyou - Not interested.
  • xxxcli213xxx
    December 12, 2008
    xxxcli213xxx
    no thanks not my kinda thing
  • r3spawnd
    September 8, 2008
    r3spawnd
    Odd and surreal and wonderful. Not epic, by far, but delightful in it's simplicity.
  • Ghw12158
    July 10, 2008
    Ghw12158
    another great one from Hartley why did it take so long for me to discover this one?
  • DoctorXQuinzel
    July 2, 2008
    DoctorXQuinzel
    I found the main characters inconsistent. A lot of things in the film seem to be have no point. I just didn't get it.
  • markearly2
    June 23, 2008
    markearly2
    Hal Hartley movies are not for everyone. He has a way of making actors behave and deliver lines in a way that just seems slightly off. Normally I would hate that sort of thing but with him it totally works. Not one of his best but still rates up there.
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