The Dead Don't Hurt

2024 2h 10m EN

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6.5

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86%

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METACRITIC

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6.4

IMDB

★6.5TMDB · 230🍅86%Rotten Tomatoes●70Metacritic★6.4IMDB · 10,655

WesternDrama

Synopsis

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In the 1860s, fiercely independent French-Canadian Vivienne Le Coudy embarks on a journey with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen, attempting to forge a life together in the dusty town of Elk Flats, Nevada. When Holger decides to go fight for the Union in the burgeoning Civil War, Vivienne must fend for herself, which isn't easy in a town controlled by a corrupt mayor.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Vicky Krieps
Vivienne Le Coudy
Viggo Mortensen
Holger Olsen
Solly McLeod
Weston Jeffries
Garret Dillahunt
Alfred Jeffries
Danny Huston
Rudolph Schiller
W. Earl Brown
Alan Kendall
Shane Graham
Billy Crossley
Rafel Plana
Claudio Garcia

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Viggo Mortensen
Writers: Viggo Mortensen
Languages: Danish, French, English, Spanish
Countries: Canada, Denmark, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States of America

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1 / 8

ERA

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Released 2 years ago.

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2 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 4 languages: Danish, French, English, Spanish.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 5 countries: Canada, Denmark, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States of America.

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4 / 8

CAST

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239+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Viggo Mortensen, shot by Marcel Zyskind. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Viggo Mortensen. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Peder Pedersen shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Vicky Krieps and Viggo Mortensen and Solly McLeod carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Viggo Mortensen directs. Marcel Zyskind behind the camera. Viggo Mortensen scores. Peder Pedersen cuts. Produced in Canada, Denmark, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States of America. Dialogue in Danish, French, English, Spanish.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Released 2 years ago.
2Dialogue crosses 4 languages: Danish, French, English, Spanish.
3International production across 5 countries: Canada, Denmark, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States of America.
4239+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
5Directed by Viggo Mortensen, shot by Marcel Zyskind. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Viggo Mortensen. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Peder Pedersen shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Vicky Krieps and Viggo Mortensen and Solly McLeod carry the top of the cast.
9IMDB entry: tt22773644 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Marcel Zyskind
Original score: Viggo Mortensen
Editing: Peder Pedersen
Production design: Jason Clarke
Makeup / hair: Tatiana Rodríguez Meza
VFX supervisor: Ian Bach
Sound: Morten Groth
Stunt coordinator: Omar Ayala
Runtime: 130 min · 2h 10m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $970,119
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: The Dead Don't Hurt (2024)
Rotten Tomatoes: 86% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 70/100
IMDB rating: 6.4/10 · 10,655 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

2 wins & 7 nominations total

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CinemaSerf2024-03-06
★ 7/10
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!
r96sk2024-06-13
★ 5/10
I almost warmed to it by its conclusion, but I don't think I can describe <em>'The Dead Don’t Hurt'</em> as anything that I rate well. I found no interest in anything that was onscreen, disappointingly. The story failed to grab me and the characters that portray it aren't at a good standard either, in my opinion of course. Vicky Krieps does her best and is probably the movie's standout. I do like Garret Dillahunt, albeit from other performances from his career - which seems to be seeing him typecast in these sorta roles, which is a bit of a shame. Pre-watch, I wanted to enjoy this - westerns can be a lot of fun, especially on the big screen - but this just didn't deliver for me personally.