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Film round-up: June 6, 2024
An immigrant Western, a bearded lady in love, blueberry pie and a double act ripe for retirement: the Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews new releases The Dead Don’t Hurt, Rosalie, Riddle of Fire and Bad Boys: Ride or Die
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RINA ARYA confronts the brutal operation of Francis Bacon’s approach to portraiture
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ANDY MIAH advocates the use of AI to assist people by expanding access to global literature and culture
EWAN KOTZ relishes a veteran Glasgow band that have lost none of their verve for live performance
The Dead Don’t Hurt (15)
Directed by Viggo Mortensen
★★★
ACTOR turned writer-director Viggo Mortensen takes one of my most hated tropes in the Western genre and gives it a fresh twist in this quietly powerful and slow burning drama about two star-crossed lovers and pioneers.
Like most Westerns it involves a woman being raped and killed to propel the action forward which is unacceptable today even if it is portrayed in a surprising way.
Set in the 1860s, it opens with Danish immigrant and former soldier Holger Olsen (Mortensen) watching the love of his life Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps), who’s French-Canadian, die from a terminal illness.
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