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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
Viggo Mortensen on his second directorial effort, 'The Dead Don't Hurt', which he also wrote, composed music for and co-stars in with Vicky Krieps
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). But as a result, there have also been many that are profound and complex and the best of them are at a level with the most poetic, tragic works that human beings have made since ancient history – some are really thought provoking and they’ve adapted to the development of North American society and other places. When I first started writing The Dead Don’t Hurt, I wrote it during the pandemic lockdown and I had an initial image of a little girl running through this forest with maples and red oaks and I was thinking about my mother and where she had grown up and lived until the end of her life.
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