Midsommar
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Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
What critics thought
Ari Aster's sun-drenched folk horror earned broadly favorable notices, but critics were genuinely split on whether its ambitions hold together: some found it a visionary, operatic breakup film, while others argued the thematic layers collapse into incoherence and the central characters are too thin to carry the weight. Florence Pugh's performance drew near-universal admiration even from detractors.
“neither the masterpiece nor the disaster that the film's most vocal viewers are bound to claim. Rather, it's an admirably strange, thematically muddled curiosity from a talented filmmaker who allows his ambitions to outpace his execution.”
Andrew Barker·Variety
“doesn't jell because its impulses are so bifurcated. It's a parable of a woman's religious awakening—that's also a woman's fantasy of revenge against a man who didn't meet her emotional needs—that's also a male director's masochistic fantasy of emasculation at the hands of a matriarchal cult.”
David Edelstein·Vulture
“A savage yet evolved slice of Swedish folk-horror, Ari Aster's hallucinatory follow-up to Hereditary proves him a horror director with no peer.”
Joshua Rothkopf·Time Out
“terrifically juicy, apocalyptic cinematic sacrament that dances around a fruitless relationship in dizzying circles”
Tomris Laffly·RogerEbert.com
Parents guide
- Violence
- severe
- Sex
- severe
- Profanity
- moderate
- Substances
- severe
- Intensity
- severe
Genres
Horror, Drama, Mystery
Cast & Crew
Ari AsterDirector
Florence PughDani
Jack ReynorChristian
William Jackson HarperJosh
Will PoulterMark
Vilhelm BlomgrenPelle
Isabelle GrillMaja
Gunnel FredSiv
Ellora TorchiaConnie
Archie MadekweSimon
Henrik NorlénUlf
Agnes Westerlund RaseDagny
Julia RagnarssonInga
Bobby KrlicComposer
Pawel PogorzelskiCinematographyMidsommar
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
What critics thought
Ari Aster's sun-drenched folk horror earned broadly favorable notices, but critics were genuinely split on whether its ambitions hold together: some found it a visionary, operatic breakup film, while others argued the thematic layers collapse into incoherence and the central characters are too thin to carry the weight. Florence Pugh's performance drew near-universal admiration even from detractors.
“neither the masterpiece nor the disaster that the film's most vocal viewers are bound to claim. Rather, it's an admirably strange, thematically muddled curiosity from a talented filmmaker who allows his ambitions to outpace his execution.”
Andrew Barker·Variety
“doesn't jell because its impulses are so bifurcated. It's a parable of a woman's religious awakening—that's also a woman's fantasy of revenge against a man who didn't meet her emotional needs—that's also a male director's masochistic fantasy of emasculation at the hands of a matriarchal cult.”
David Edelstein·Vulture
“A savage yet evolved slice of Swedish folk-horror, Ari Aster's hallucinatory follow-up to Hereditary proves him a horror director with no peer.”
Joshua Rothkopf·Time Out
“terrifically juicy, apocalyptic cinematic sacrament that dances around a fruitless relationship in dizzying circles”
Tomris Laffly·RogerEbert.com
Parents guide
- Violence
- severe
- Sex
- severe
- Profanity
- moderate
- Substances
- severe
- Intensity
- severe
Genres
Horror, Drama, Mystery
Cast & Crew
Ari AsterDirectorFlorence PughDaniJack ReynorChristianWilliam Jackson HarperJoshWill PoulterMarkVilhelm BlomgrenPelleIsabelle GrillMajaGunnel FredSivEllora TorchiaConnieArchie MadekweSimonHenrik NorlénUlfAgnes Westerlund RaseDagnyJulia RagnarssonIngaBobby KrlicComposerPawel PogorzelskiCinematographyStream
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