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No Such Thing
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- Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
- Film
- Language(s)
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English
Icelandic
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- Director
- Hartley, Hal
- Screenwriter
- Hartley, Hal
- Actor
- Burke, Robert John
- Actor
- Polley, Sarah
- Actor
- Mirren, Helen
- Actor
- Christie, Julie
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- Publisher
- American Zoetrope in association with Icelandic Film Corporation and True Fiction Pictures
- Date
- 2001
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- Relationships
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(Upstream) Relies on -> Grendel, Gardner, John (1971)(Downstream) Adapted for new medium as -> No Such Thing, Hartley, Hal (2012)
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- Descriptive Notes
Duration 1 hr. 42 mins. A story of an ancient, self-absorbed, philosophical monster in Iceland who questions the meaning of his existence in relation to human society. The most direct influence on it is Gardner's Grendel (as Hartley implies in Hal Hartley and Kenneth Kaleta, True Fiction Pictures & Possible Films [New York: Soft Skull Press, 2008], 126-27), but several elements of the film also seem to interact playfully with Beowulf independent of Gardner's mediation.
- Notes on Prior Documentation
Not in MO2.
- Authentication
BAM (from DVD).
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- Last Updated
- 03/29/2022