It’s a genre steeped in ‘tough guy’ talk, violent tropes and wide-open vistas, but Viggo Mortensen’s new film out Friday, “The Dead Don’t Hurt,” departs from the conventional archetypes of a classic Western, starting with one significant shift: a female lead.
The film follows the unusual love story of two immigrants who settle in the American frontier town of Elk Flats, Nevada, amid the backdrop of the Civil War. Mortensen — who wrote, directed and composed the film’s score — plays Danish immigrant Holger Olsen. His character falls in love with Vivienne Le Coudy, a fiercely independent French-Canadian pioneer played by Vicky Krieps.
” It’s the reason film producer Regina Solórzano joined the cast as well. “It employs that surface appearance of a western to speak of a revolutionized world, of a woman who, to me, seems to be quite ahead of her time, with a different perspective of what femininity is, what the role of a woman is,” Solórzano previously said.
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