Viggo Mortensen Talks Writing, Directing, Co-Starring And Composing Music For ‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’ And Bringing Multicultural Elements To The Western Genre: “The U.S. Was A Real Melting Pot Even Then” — Glasgow Film Festival
deadline.comViggo Mortensen really puts the word multi-hyphenate to good use for his second directorial effort The Dead Don’t Hurt as he also wrote, co-stars in and composes the music for this distinctive Western film, which played at the Glasgow Film Festival earlier this week after world premiering to critical acclaim at the Toronto Film Festival last year.
The film, which was acquired for the U.S. by Shout! Studios last month and is being released in the UK by Signature Entertainment, is a story of star-crossed lovers on the western U.S.
frontier in the 1860s. It follows Vivienne Le Coudy, played by Vicky Krieps (who was honored with the TIFF Tribute Performer Award), a fiercely independent woman who embarks on a relationship with Danish immigrant Holgen Olsen (Mortensen).
After meeting Olsen in San Francisco, she agrees to travel with him to his home in the quiet town of Elk Flats, Nevada, where they embark on a life together until the outbreak of the Civil War separates them when Olsen makes a fateful decision to fight for the Union.
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