Projects matching: Viggo Mortensen

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1860s. The fiercely independent French Canadian Vivienne Le Coudy embarks on a relationship with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen. After meeting in San Francisco, Vivienne agrees to travel with him to his home near the quiet town of Elk Flats, where they start a life together. However, the Civil War separates them, leaving Vivienne to fend for herself in a place controlled by powerful rancher and his violent, wayward son aided and abetted by the corrupt local Mayor.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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When 80-year-old independent farmer Willis travels to Los Angeles for an indefinite stay with son John and his family, two very different worlds collide. Mentally declining Willis is abrasive, caustic, and funny, bringing old wounds from the past and years of mutual mistrust to the surface.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2020 - Premieres - World premiere
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2020

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The year is 1962. A glamorous American couple arrive in Athens and while sightseeing at the Acropolis they encounter a young, Greek-speaking American who is working as a tour guide, scamming tourists on the side. When he visits the couple at their exclusive hotel, he is pressed into helping to move the body of a seemingly unconscious man - and as events take a more sinister turn he finds himself compromised and unable to pull himself free.

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Young writer Sal Paradise has his life shaken by the arrival of free-spirited Dean Moriarty and his girl, Marylou. As they travel across the country, they encounter a mix of people who each impact their journey indelibly.

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Written by Christopher Hampton, the film takes a glimpse into the turbulent relationships between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung (Fassbender), his mentor Sigmund Freud (Mortensen), and Sabina Spielrein (Knightley) - the troubled and beautiful young woman who came between them. Into the mix comes Otto Gross (Cassel), a debauched psychoanalyst who is determined to push the boundaries.

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A thriller reteaming A History of Violence director David Cronenberg and leading man Viggo Mortensen, and written by Steve Knight. The mysterious and charismatic Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London’s most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. Several lives – including Nikolai's own – hang in the balance as a harrowing chain of murder, deceit, and retribution reverberates through the darkest corners of both the family and London itself.

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Good examines the life of 'everyman' John Halder, a 'good' and decent individual with family problems: a neurotic wife, two demanding children and a mother suffering from senile dementia. A literary professor, Halder explores his personal circumstances in a novel advocating compassionate euthanasia. When the book is unexpectedly enlisted by powerful political figures in support of government propaganda, Halder finds his career rising in an optimistic current of nationalism and prosperity.  Seemingly inconsequential decisions lead to choices, which lead to more choices with eventually devastating effect.