‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’ Review: Viggo Mortensen Stars, Writes, Directs, Produces, And Composes Music For This Uniquely Fine Western But Vicky Krieps Is Its Soul – Toronto Film Festival
The western genre has been so pervasive throughout the entire history of the movies, and it is hard to imagine doing anything in it that hasn’t already been done. Viggo Mortensen, in writing, directing, producing, and co-starring in only his second film behind the camera (after 2020’s Falling) finds a moving, if tragic, love story to play against the stunning landscape of the circa 1860’s west, and somehow it all feels new. John Ford and Howard Hawks would love this movie.