Tribute to Viggo Mortensen 2024 / The Dead Don't Hurt / Canada, Mexico, Denmark 2023
Three years after making his directorial debut with the impressive drama Falling, the multi-talented Viggo Mortensen is back in the director’s chair with this quietly subversive period romance set in the American West. Mortensen also wrote the script, composed the music, and stars as the Danish immigrant Holger, a sheriff in a dusty Nevada town in the mid-19th century. Mortensen’s focused and subdued direction is a well-crafted homage to classic Westerns, updated with the confidence of an auteur to include a female protagonist at the center of the action – the independent free-thinker Vivienne (Vicky Krieps), who finds in Holger both a partner and a kindred spirit striving to live a dignified life in a world of violent primitives.
Karel Och
129 min / Color, DCP
Director Viggo Mortensen
/ Screenplay Viggo Mortensen
/ Dir. of Photography Marcel Zyskind
/ Music Viggo Mortensen
/ Sound Morten Groth Brandt
/ Editor Peder Pedersen
/ Art Director Carlos Benassini
/ Producer Regina Solórzano, Viggo Mortensen, Jeremy Thomas
/ Production Talipot Studio
/ Coproduction Perceval Pictures, Recorded Picture Company
/ Cast Viggo Mortensen, Vicky Krieps, Solly McLeod, Garret Dillahunt, Colin Morgan, Ray Mckinnon, W. Earl Brown, Atlas Green, Danny Houston
Viggo Mortensen (1958, Watertown, New York City). Filmography: Falling (2020), The Dead Don’t Hurt (2023).
Viggo Mortensen
Actor / Film Director
Solly McLeod
Actor
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