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Viggo Mortensen-directed Western secures international sales for The Dead Don't Hurt.

The Dead Don't Hurt, a Western film directed by Viggo Mortensen, has secured international sales, offering a fresh take on the genre with a compelling love...

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‘You play the cards you’re dealt’: is Viggo Mortensen Hollywood’s most versatile star?

Actor, director, poet, musician, photographer, publisher – there is nary a creative endeavour to which the American hasn’t turned his hand. He discusses his ‘strange’ work with Lisandro Alonso – and accidentally starring in his own film

The Guardian - UK

Toronto film festival 2023 roundup – solidarity, swearing, swimming and one standout film

While a clutch of directorial debuts by actors mostly misfired, a return to form for Alexander Payne and award-worthy performances by Jamie Foxx and Jodie Comer offered plenty to get excited about

The Guardian - UK

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Vicky Krieps on the feminist Western 'The Dead Don't Hurt' and how she leaves behind past roles

Vicky Krieps stars in Viggo Mortensen's feminist Western “The Dead Don’t Hurt” as a woman assaulted while her partner is away fighting for the Union army

The Independent UK

The Dead Don’t Hurt review – love blossoms amid violence in Viggo Mortensen’s western

The star directs, writes, composes and acts in this beautifully shot and sombre film about an old-school hero in a 19th-century frontier community fraught with tragedy

The Guardian - UK

‘Honestly, I wish I could make films less connected to myself’: One Fine Morning director Mia Hansen-Løve on life spilling into fiction

The French filmmaker speaks with Annabel Nugent about her new film starring Léa Seydoux, what it means to be both a mother and a filmmaker – and the myth about directors that she won’t buy into

The Independent UK

Streaming: the best Michelle Yeoh films

Ahead of tomorrow night’s Academy Awards, we look back at the best actress contender’s long, varied career, from Tomorrow Never Dies and Crouching Tiger to this year’s Oscar favourite, Everything Everywhere All At Once

The Guardian - UK

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Austrian poet seeks solace from gender roles in Berlinale biopic

For German director Margarethe von Trotta, "Ingeborg Bachmann - Journey into the Desert," chronicling six years of the titular Austrian poet's life, is part of a dialogue with the past about how life for women has changed and how much they have achieved.

Reuters

Envelopes, please! Our film critics reveal their personal Oscars shortlists

Ahead of the official Academy nominations on Tuesday, Observer critics and film writers pick their standout movies, performances, directors and more

The Guardian - UK

More Than Ever review – thoughtful drama about how to die well

Vicky Krieps shows her emotional range as a woman taking ownership of terminal illness in Emily Atef’s sensitive film co-starring the late Gaspard Ulliel

The Guardian - UK

More Than Ever review – dying Vicky Krieps acts up a storm in end-of-life drama

Krieps and the late Gaspard Ulliel bring great conviction and intelligence to this unlikely tale of a woman’s last adventure

The Guardian - UK

Vicky Krieps on playing a dark empress

The actor spoke about learning Hungarian, horseback riding, fencing and ice swimming to embody the rebellious royal

Salon

And the winner should be … the season’s most overlooked movie performances

While Cate Blanchett and Colin Farrell continue to rack up awards, as we edge towards the Oscars, there are other actors who deserve to be included

The Guardian - US

‘Corsage’ review: A striking Vicky Krieps anchors this anachronistic biopic

The Luxembourg-born actor Vicky Krieps has one of those faces that seems to be made of air, her expressions ever-sculpting. Like a young Meryl Streep, she has a soft, quizzical stillness and an unhurried quality, as if she’s ever-so-slightly amused by those swirling around her. In 2018’s “Phantom Thread,” playing…

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The Guardian - UK

Corsage review – Vicky Krieps mesmerises as a rebellious 19th-century royal

The defiance and despair of glamorous Elisabeth of Austria, trapped in a loveless marriage, has a familiar ring in Marie Kreutzer’s stately psychodrama

Chicago Sun-Times

Vicky Krieps, director bring a modern edge to Austria’s Empress Elisabeth in ‘Corsage’

The film is not your standard costume picture, or even a straightforward biopic for both practical and thematic reasons.

Los Angeles Times

Vicky Krieps considers making the acclaimed 'Corsage' 'a mistake.' Here's why

Vicky Krieps brings a sense of spontaneity and live-wire unpredictability to every role she plays, from her breakout performance in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Phantom Thread" opposite Daniel Day-Lewis to her new, celebrated part in Marie Kreutzer's "Corsage."

The Independent UK

‘Corsage’ gives a modern edge to Austria's Empress Elisabeth

Vicky Krieps stars as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the new film “Corsage,” which was recently shortlisted for an Oscar nomination and is now playing in limited release

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Evening Standard

Twixmas movies: From Avatar to Bones and All, the best films to see at the cinema over the Christmas break

From thrillers to period dramas, the new films just keep coming

The Independent UK

Corsage review: Vicky Krieps is a haunted royal with a 19.5-inch waist in this tastefully anachronistic romp

As she already proved in ‘Phantom Thread’, Krieps is uniquely gifted in portraying women with an active disdain for polite society

Asharq Al-Awsat

Review: In ‘Corsage,’ a Real-Life Empress Gets a New Story

A winsome young woman marries into the top echelon of royalty, becomes lonely in a passionless marriage, and suffers eating disorders and depression even as she fascinates the outside world. Decades after her untimely death, they’re still making movies and TV shows about her. P.S. Guess what? Her name isn’t…

The Guardian - UK

Triangle of Sadness takes four top prizes at European film awards

Ruben Ostlund’s Palme d’Or-winning satire takes best picture, director, actor and screenplay at continent’s answer to the Oscars

The Guardian - UK

Austere drama about Austrian empress wins top prize at London film festival

Corsage, directed by Marie Kreutzer, hailed as ‘mesmerising’ imagining of a year in life of Elisabeth in 1877

The Guardian - UK

Sisi-mania: first royal celebrity celebrated in cinemas and on Netflix

The story of Elisabeth, empress of Austria, is being brought to life again with multiple films, TV shows and a novel

The Guardian - UK

Bergman Island review – Mia Hansen-Løve’s Baltic millefeuille

The writer-director’s drama about a relationship between two film-makers is an engaging autobiographical tease

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