JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
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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
Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys: Ride or Die; Nadia Tereszkiewicz in Rosalie
RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery
GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends a useful book aimed at informing activists with local examples of solidarity in action around the world
HENRY BELL is provoked by a book that looks toward, but does not fully explore the question of who gets to imagine the shapes of cities to come
MATTHEW HAWKINS surveys the upcoming programme of contemporary dance in Glasgow, and picks some highlights
‘Chance encounters are what keep us going,’ says novelist Haruki Murakami. In Amy, a chance encounter gives fresh perspective to memories of angst, hedonism and a charismatic teenage rebel.
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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