In the 1860s, fiercely independent French-Canadian Vivienne Le Coudy embarks on a journey with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen, attempting to forge a life together in the dusty town of Elk Flats, Nevada. When Holger decides to go fight for the Union in the burgeoning Civil War, Vivienne must fend for herself, which isn't easy in a town controlled by a corrupt mayor.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemplative.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Mar 20247/10
Despite the fact that the plot has plenty of holes, this western just about works. It's all about the determined "Vivienne" (Vicky Krieps), very much a woman in a man's world of pioneering in the 1860s. She encounters the honest and thoughtful "Olsen" (Viggo Mortensen) and travels to his remote, and rather ramshackle, shack where they begin to make an home for themselves. He takes a job as their sheriff and she, a little to his chagrin, starts working in the saloon. He is restless, though, and with the American civil war looming large, he decides that he ought to use his Danish army training and go enlist. She's not enamoured of the idea, but off he goes and that leaves her alone and firmly in the sights of spoilt local "Weston" (the rather un-menacing Solly McLeod). When "Olsen" returns from the war quite a few years later he is presented with a few shocks! Subsequent events take an even more tragic turn, and now he must face his demons and settle accounts. This is a grand looking romantic drama that takes it's time to get going and that allows Krieps to invest strongly in the maturing elements of her character. That he would just saunter off for years and leave her alone and unpr
Read the whole review on TMDB - r96skon TMDB · Jun 20245/10
I almost warmed to it by its conclusion, but I don't think I can describe <em>'The Dead Don’t Hurt'</em> as anything that I rate well. I found no interest in anything that was onscreen, disappointingly. The story failed to grab me and the characters that portray it aren't at a good standard either, in my opinion of course. Vicky Krieps does her best and is probably the movie's standout. I do like Garret Dillahunt, albeit from other performances from his career - which seems to be seeing him typecast in these sorta roles, which is a bit of a shame. Pre-watch, I wanted to enjoy this - westerns can be a lot of fun, especially on the big screen - but this just didn't deliver for me personally.
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Cast
- Vicky KriepsVivienne Le Coudy
- Viggo MortensenHolger Olsen
- Solly McLeodWeston Jeffries
- Garret DillahuntAlfred Jeffries
- Danny HustonRudolph Schiller
- W. Earl BrownAlan Kendall
- Shane GrahamBilly Crossley
- Rafel PlanaClaudio Garcia
- Colin MorganLewis Cartwright
- Ray McKinnonJudge Blagden
Crew
- Viggo MortensenDirector
- Viggo MortensenWriter
- Marcel ZyskindDirector of Photography
- Viggo MortensenOriginal Music Composer
- Peder PedersenEditor
- Regina SolórzanoProducer
- Viggo MortensenProducer
- Jeremy ThomasProducer
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