No Such Thing (2001) 7/10

Starring : Sarah Polley, Robert John Burke, Helen Mirren, Julie Christie
Director : Hal Hartley
Running Time : 103 mins

Beatrice (Polley) is a wannabe journalist who travels to Iceland to investigate the disappearance of her boyfriend, only to discover that he was murdered by a human hating mythical immortal monster (Burke). After chatting with the monster, she decides to bring him back to America in the hope of finding a way of killing him to end his miserable life on Earth.

This was quite an interesting movie, which takes a unique twist on the Beauty and the Beast story. Polley is wonderfully meek as Beatrice, and the blossoming of her character, although unrealistic, is expertly achieved without going over the top. Burke plays the foul mouthed monster well, and overall this has the making of an entertaining, though slow and ambiguous, movie.

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