The Dead Don’t Hurt (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Viggo Mortensen’s film, which he wrote and directed as well as playing the male lead, is both an unusual and rather contemporary take on the Western.
Read MoreViggo Mortensen’s film, which he wrote and directed as well as playing the male lead, is both an unusual and rather contemporary take on the Western.
Read MoreViggo Mortensen, who makes his feature film writing and directing debut here, was inspired to make the film by memories of his relationship with his own late father.
Read Moreauja (pronounced how-huh, in case you were wondering) is not a film for the impatient. Or even the moderately patient, come to that. Lisandro Alonso’s period drama, which is set in Patagonia during the ‘Conquest of the Desert’ (a military campaign in the 1800s to rid the South American region of aboriginals), trudges along with deliberate sluggishness, stretching out each and every scene as if it were made of non-breakable elastic.
Read MoreI confess I am somewhat baffled by David Cronenberg’s latest film. In terms of its sometimes gross and startling images and incomprehensibility it is reminiscent of early Cronenberg films like The Brood and Videodrome, before he made The Fly and started to win a wider fan base.
Read MoreMortensen plays a 19th century captain searching for his daughter, in what is referred to as ‘Patagonia’ in his latest big screen release. The great Dane (via Argentina and America) spoke to George Meixner about the new project.
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