A fiercely independent woman fights to survive on the frontier when war separates her from the man she loves.
In THE DEAD DON’T HURT, Vivienne Le Coudy builds a life with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen on the Nevada frontier, only for the Civil War to tear them apart. Left alone in a town ruled by corrupt men, Vivienne must resist violence, coercion and fear on her own terms. Viggo Mortensen crafts a tragic western about love, survival, revenge and forgiveness.
Rialto Recommends THE DEAD DON’T HURT is a beautifully restrained western with a fierce emotional centre. Vicky Krieps brings quiet fire to Vivienne, a woman determined not to be broken by a world built for ruthless men. Both a love story and a reckoning, Viggo Mortensen’s film finds poetry in hardship, asking what remains when war, violence and time change the people we love.
Cast
Viggo Mortensen (Holger Olsen/The Knight), Vicky Krieps (Vivienne Le Coudy/The Knight), Solly McLeod (Weston Jeffries)
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Language
English
Subtitles
English
Closed Captions [CC]
English
Country
United States
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