Two pioneers fight for their lives and find each other against all odds during the Civil War on the American frontier.
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Vivienne Le Coudy does not seem to want to settle down and is very strong willed which is not really what men of this time actually want, they want a woman to obey and be an object to them. That would change when she met Holger Olsen who was different to any man she had come across before.
They start a love affair and everything seems to be going very well for them until Olsen decides that he is going to fight for the American’s in the Civil War. Despite being an immigrant to the country he was an experienced solider back in Denmark and sees it that he is needed. The big issue with that? Well, it leaves Vivienne alone.
A woman alone in this type of place was never going to be a good thing, even more so when she was working in the bar. This grew the attention of the truly awful Weston Jeffries who thought he could behavior in anyway he wanted with his father Alfred owning a lot of the town working with the corrupt Major Rudolph Schiller.
The thing is though everything about the film moved at a snails pace, which truly meant that I found it difficult to stay interested. Even with the flashes back and forwards to tell the story could not save it, as that was at times a little bit confusing and all over the place. It possibly would have been better just telling the story and the emotional punch might have actually worked out better.
Obviously my reasons for seeing this film was due to it fully being a Viggo Mortensen film with him directing and writing it as well as starring in it. Lifelong fan since Lord of the Rings. I have to also admit that I do not warm to Vicky Krieps and feel she does not bring any personality to this film at all. I mean Westerns are not anywhere near my favorite genre and I have found the majority of them a little dull and boring.
