Midsommar
More About Midsommar
Overview
Just as their relationship is on the brink of falling apart, couple Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are brought closer by a family tragedy. The mourning Dani then joins Christian and his friends, Josh (Will Poulter) and Mark (William Jackson Harper), on a trip to a rural Swedish village that is celebrating a once-in-a-blue-moon festival. As the tourists partake in the celebrations, they discover that the idyllic community holds many unnerving secrets, and it all unfolds in broad daylight. Written and directed by Ari Aster.
Main Cast & Crew
Ari Aster - Director
Florence Pugh
Jack Reynor
William Jackson Harper
Vilhelm Blomgren
Will Poulter
Ellora Torchia
Archie Madekwe
Details
- Format: DVD
- Run Time: 140
- Color Format: Color
- UPC: 031398306849
- Genre: Horror
- Rating: R (MPAA) (disturbing ritualistic violence and grisly images, strong sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language)
- Release Date: October 2019
Related Categories:
Movies > Horror/Suspense
Related Keywords:
Cult Film
Mystery
Gore
Vacations
Competitions
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Reviews:
"[A] disturbing, ambitious, and unsettlingly colorful new horror movie..." - 06/20/2019 A.V. Club
5 stars out of 5 -- "It’s a virtuoso, bone-shaking, head-spinning experience. The vibe is hard to shake off." - 06/27/2019 Empire
4 stars out of 5 -- "Ari Aster is a bold new voice in psychological horror, the kind that messes ruthlessly with your head." - 07/02/2019 Rolling Stone
"Aster's conception of this community and its folkways benefits from an attention to detail whose grounding in real-world cultures supports some of its more lurid imaginings." - 06/18/2019 Hollywood Reporter
"Aster gives us a slow-burning, boldly-made meditation on grief and the disintegration of a relationship in the loose frame of a folk horror film..." - 06/19/2019 Variety
4 stars out of 4 -- "One thing is certain: writer/director Ari Aster comprehends stifling dread in the most profound sense." - 07/01/2019 RogerEbert.com
"Ari Aster has harnessed a singular mode of uneasiness in MIDSOMMAR that is cumulative and insidious: every setpiece is composed of precise, striking visual elements that are at once abstract and potently, primally suggestive." - 07/02/2019 Film Comment
"Tense and stylish, with rounded performances and a tragic twist, MIDSOMMAR's opening 15-minute prologue is an absolute masterclass, and could even work as a standalone short." - 07/03/2019 Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "[S]hot through with sly humour, audacious shocks and a savage line in anti-date-movie rhetoric." - 09/09/2019 The Guardian
"Aster artfully freighted his folk horror with notions of loss, grief and emotional neglect." - 12/23/2019 Uncut