
Beatrice (Sarah Polley) works as a researcher at a sensationalist New York City-based media organization, although she is more often than not tasked with making coffee than anything else. Unlike her colleagues, she is shy, soft spoken, and a Plain Jane of a woman. She convinces her cutthroat boss (Dame Helen Mirren) to send her on assignment to Iceland, where one of their camera crews, led by Beatrice's fiancé Jim, has gone missing, they who were investigating eyewitness acc... (Full plot summary below)
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Beatrice (Sarah Polley) works as a researcher at a sensationalist New York City-based media organization, although she is more often than not tasked with making coffee than anything else. Unlike her colleagues, she is shy, soft spoken, and a Plain Jane of a woman. She convinces her cutthroat boss (Dame Helen Mirren) to send her on assignment to Iceland, where one of their camera crews, led by Beatrice's fiancé Jim, has gone missing, they who were investigating eyewitness accounts of what was largely seen as a long held urban myth of a medieval monster. En route to Iceland, Beatrice becomes the sole survivor of the plane crashing, her survival considered a miracle. She is quickly abandoned in Iceland by her boss, as she will not consent to become the media darling to tell the story of the crash, leaving her alone in her long physical and emotional recovery. Beatrice believes her emotional recovery can only be fulfilled by still finding out what happened to Jim, the camera crew who were last known to be in a remote and isolated community in northern Iceland. In the process, Beatrice gets embroiled in the story of the immortal monster (Robert John Burke), specifically in helping him locate a Dr. Artaud (Baltasar Kormákur), who can help the monster fulfill what he believes is his true destiny. However, Beatrice's boss, who senses a sensational story, may thwart Beatrice and the monster's plans.
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| WBAI Web RadioPrairie MillerCan a philosophical monster movie work when it's not meant to be scary? Apparently indie bad boy Hal Hartley thinks so. |
| Apollo GuideKevin N. LaforestLike the world of his film, Hartley created a monster but didn't know how to handle it. |
| Film Journal InternationalErica AbeelWhy did such fine actors sign on to this lollapalooza? |
| Matinee MagazineJason ClarkA stirring, funny and finally transporting re-imagining of Beauty and the Beast and 1930s horror films |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordThe Christ allegory doesn't work because there is no foundation for it |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasNot everyone, for sure, is going to be able or willing to go the distance in this ambitious but exceedingly offbeat epic, which is great-looking and has a sweeping romantic score by Hartley himself. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanHartley is trapped between sincerity and mock sincerity, and that all but dooms a filmmaker to slipping through the cracks. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonIt's a film with an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric, but never clearly seen or felt. |
| SPLICEDWireRob BlackwelderOn a cutting room floor somewhere lies...footage that might have made No Such Thing a trenchant, ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating misfire. |
| Film Freak CentralBill ChambersNo Such Thing breaks no new ground and treads old turf like a hippopotamus ballerina. |