The Dead Don't Hurt
Tuesday, 24 September 2024
8pm
Tickets:
Full €7
Concession €5
Linenhall Film Club Season Ticket available - €35
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1860s, The Western frontier U.S.A. The story of two outsiders - Danish immigrant Holger Olsen and French-Canadian Vivienne Le Coudy - who meet in San Francisco and embark on a passionate relationship. Settling in a small Nevada town, their newfound contentment is upended when the Civil War breaks out and Olsen signs up, leaving Vivienne to fend for herself among the corrupt and violent town leaders.
Directed and starring Viggo Mortensen, this takes the atmosphere of the Western and flips the genre using a non-linear narrative structure. Mortensen (Olsen) and Vicky Krieps (playing the fiercely independent Vivienne) have extraordinary chemistry and create an authentic and understated romance. It is beautifully shot with wide landscape vistas that also feel very intimate.
USA, Denmark, Mexico, UK, Canada, 2023
129 minutes
15A
Director: Viggo Mortensen
Cast : Viggo Mortensen, Vicky Krieps, Solly McLeod, Colin Morgan, Danny Huston, Garret Dillahunt
Featuring excellent performances from its two leads, the film is a Western for people who don’t like Westerns
Mortensen’s script tussles between feminist revision and old-school male showdowns, imagining Vivienne as a Joan of Arc-inspired frontierswoman yet subject to the degradations of the era
This sinewy, sombre, handsomely crafted and beautifully shot western is Viggo Mortensen’s second feature as a director, an impressively authored movie in which Mortensen is also writer, composer and star
Festivals:
Glasgow Film festival 2024
Toronto International Film Festival 2023
