The Dead Don't Hurt

 

The Dead Don’t Hurt 2023

• Director: Viggo Mortensen
• Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Vicky Krieps, Solly McLeod, Garret Dillahunt, Danny Huston, Colin Morgan
• Why? Colin Morgan and Viggo Mortensen
• Seen: 24 July 2026                     

 

          Not a fan of westerns I’m going to give this a try because of Morgan and Mortensen and because it’s supposed to be different.

          Mortensen plays a newly widowed sheriff, Holger Olsen, who turns in his star and leaves the corrupt town with his son.

          Flashbacks show his romance with Vivienne (Krieps) who became his wife and died in the film’s first scene.

          Morgan plays her pompous, arrogant and cruel fiancé. Who she dumps for Holger. Morgan does it well but it’s not really his kind of character.

          It’s mostly a kind of love story, which also doesn’t usually interest me.

          Slow and low-key with nice nature scenes.

 

 

3* of 5