What's in a name? Not much, alas, in Hal Hartley's No Such Thing and Rose Troche's The Safety of Objects. (Film).(Brief Article)
American Prospect, The, May, 2002 by Parker, James
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HAL HARTLEY HAS A FINE name, a bright exhalation of a name, prancingly rhythmic, mildly heroic, suggestive of things boyish, airy, lyrical. A better name, perhaps, for an athlete--a high jumper or a thrower of javelins--than a filmmaker, but there we are: The world is full of mismatches.
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Also full of mismatches is Hartley's new film, No Such Thing, in which monster fable and social satire are mingled to mutual confusion and distress. On a sea-sucked rock in Iceland lives the Monster (Robert John Burke), immortally bored and alcoholically foul-mouthed. Metaphysically he's ...
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