The Dead Don't Hurt

Viggo Mortensen acts as writer, director and lead in this romantic Western epic, set in the American frontier of the 1860s. Mortensen is Danish immigrant Holder Olsen, who falls for the fiercely independent French-Canadian Vivienne, played by the luminous Vicky Krieps. When Holder must set out to fight in the civil war, unusually for a Western, Mortensen’s film stays behind with Vivienne, centering the female experience.