Two pioneers fight for the survival of their lives and their love on the American frontier during the Civil War.Two pioneers fight for the survival of their lives and their love on the American frontier during the Civil War.Two pioneers fight for the survival of their lives and their love on the American frontier during the Civil War.
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- TriviaThe knight that appears in young Vivienne's visions carries a familiar sword: Anduril, Aragorn's sword from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), which was gifted to Viggo Mortensen by Peter Jackson at the end of filming.
- ConnectionsReferenced in CTV News at Six Toronto: Episode dated 8 September 2023 (2023)
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The Dead Don't Hurt
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 unprotected does beggar belief a bit, and there's no denying that does negatively impact on the plausibility of what, rather obviously, comes next. Still, there is enough meat on the bones of the story, an effectively sparing amount of dialogue and a soupçon of chemistry between the two at the top of the cast that gives some indication of just how tough and lawless life was and at how difficult it was to be decent!
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- Mar 6, 2024
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- Runtime2 hours 9 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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