Midsommar

Midsommar

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.

  • Released: 2019-07-03
  • Runtime: 148 minutes
  • Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
  • Stars: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Will Poulter, Vilhelm Blomgren, Isabelle Grill, Gunnel Fred, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe, Henrik Norlén, Agnes Westerlund Rase, Julia Ragnarsson, Mats Blomgren, Lars Väringer, Anna Åström, Hampus Hallberg, Liv Mjönes, Louise Peterhoff, Katarina Weidhagen, Björn Andrésen, Tomas Engström, Dag Andersson, Lennart R. Svensson, Anders Beckman, Rebecka Johnston, Tove Skeidsvoll, Anders Back, Anki Larsson, Levente Puczkó-Smith, Frans Cavallin Rosengarten, Vilmos Kolba, Mihály Kaszás, Gabi Fón, Zsolt Bojári, Klaudia Csányi, Anna Berentzen, Austin R. Grant, Maximilian Slash Marton
  • Director: Ari Aster
 Comments
  • chavarriaviggo - 13 June 2024
    I only watched this for Florence Pugh
    Hands down the strangest movie I've ever watched, and I'm familiar with A24 bringing taboo sequences into their films, but this... This is genuinely surprising. I came into this movie thinking it would be somewhat mind-bending and intuitive, but it was just a whole lot of nothingness. The main focus to draw you in is rooted in shock horror and gore that are meant to disgust you. The movie is by no means boring, but it's not a movie I'd personally care to ever watch again given the fact that it's nearly three hours long, for no reason at all. The first half is paced well, but it leads to nowhere with the ideas and minimal points it developed. None of the supporting characters other than Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) had any meaningful depth. So there is no reason to care for any of them when they get killed off. The ending is quite anti-climactic and left me feeling very dumbfounded as there was no real resolution. Could've been a masterpiece if it had taken the "escape from the psycho cult" route.
  • Norman_French - 7 May 2024
    Why didn't Dani leave?
    After seeing a couple of elders jump off a cliff, Dani (at least) should have realized the following:

    1) This is a (death) cult, and these people are insane.

    2) I'm an outsider and don't understand the rules and customs.

    3) Since the cultists are hiding things, more deaths may be coming.

    4) I should probably assume my friends and I are in danger.

    But NOOO ... a couple of guys calm her down and she stays, mostly oblivious and/or accepting of the increasingly WTF traditions. Dani should have stuck with her original plan and just walked away (alone if necessary).

    Florence Pugh is GREAT here -- she's a good actress. But the cult aspects were painful to watch, especially given I have Swedish friends (who celebrate Midsommar the NORMAL way). I liked the ending, but that's too little, too late.

    The plot is frustrating. The "outsiders" all should have left IMMEDIATELY after the first two deaths, which happened on the first day of the festivities, so CLEARLY more bad stuff was coming. Plus, the cultists were just WAY too happy to have guests.

    I give this six stars for quality, plus one star for Florence Pugh, minus two stars for being SO implausible (and annoying). That's five (5) stars total, which seems fair for such a mixed bag.