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
  • krisztian113 - 7 June 2024
    This movie is a migraine headache
    Avoiding this movie for 5 years, as i knew it will be uncomfortable, strange, and not my cup of tea. Yet, yesterday my girlfriend saw the TV advertisement for it, and told me we can watch it. We could watch it from streaming, but yeah, if it's aired anyway, allright. As soon as it started, She went for a shower and left me with this movie for one hour. Watching this movie alone for the first hour made me realise, this movie is exactly how a migraine headache feels like. Every character is irritating, everything is too bright, and makes little sense. Shure i read a lot of posts about the symbolism behind it, but all i see is the writer trying too hard.
  • mattflohr - 20 April 2024
    The perfect breakup movie
    Midsommar is a film that gets better each time I watch it, I finally got the DVD and it's a more than worthy addition to my collection. So nych more than just s horror film. It's not just visually and atmospherically unnerving, it's loaded with nuance, subtext, and foreshadowing details that pay off very satisfactorily. Basing it all on real cultural practises is both respectful and poignant. Florence Pugh's performance is a 10/10. She's strong, but vulnerable, damaged, but capable. Broken and triumphant. She's gone through hell, stands strong and still gets treated like a nuisance. Her boyfriend tries but he doesn't really understand her. He lets his douchey friends push him into resentment and negativity. This story is at its heart about letting go of the things in life that hold you back. And not fighting back against the inevitable. And Dani finds a way through her pain, a path of strength and endurance, a path of fire and blood. This is an extremely good film on all levels.
  • sokthesweet - 25 March 2024
    The most disappointing movie I've ever watched
    The first half starts off pretty strong, reminiscent of other horror movies with similar premise (The Ritual for example). The setting manages to be creepy and eerie, despite the constant sunlight that bathes the village that the main story takes place. However, the movie cannot keep up to its strong beginning as it goes on. The constant illumination of the set, becomes monotonous and the extremely beautiful landscapes, are now boring. The main characters, of course, are stupid (typical for horror films) and as such, you really cannot sympathize with them when most of the awful things start to occur.

    The real problem though, happens about half an hour before the end, where the weirdness is turned to 11 just for shock value, and it gets really, really hard to get to the point of this movie.

    Movies like Mulholland Drive, don't make much sense, but they acknowledge that, and try to motivate the viewer to give their interpretation of the medium.

    Movies like Midsommar, think that they are elevating themselves to the high art heavens, by suddenly being extra shocking and barely leaving room for meaningful and/or intellectual allegories to be made.

    It's relatively obvious that Midsommar is about the main character's toxic relationship with her boyfriend, but in its search for higher highs, the latter half of the movie, devolves in a weird mess of gory violence and disturbing sex scenes.
  • carinagrahamcex - 27 December 2022
    Kept me hooked throughout
    The Wickerman meets The killing of a sacred deer. It was addictive and Definitely kept me watching. Keeps you on the edge of your seat and I was biting My nails too for the first time in my life!!! The bear was a very freaky part which I still think was unnecessary to the story unless im completely missing something. Was this a part of the plot?? But it was a fascinating storyline but also very weird too and the ending???? I still can't grasp nor understand. But all in all Definitely a good watch. It kinda reminded me of a bad dream and the feeling you get when you have just woke up from one. Very trippy.
  • TheAnimalMother - 18 December 2022
    Another Copycat Film From Ari Aster
    This is in all seriousness, a laughably bad modernized version of The Wicker Man, and told with the exact same kind of story reveal as Rosemary's Baby. And I can't really stress the 'laughably bad' aspect here enough. The film is silly, and far beyond reason in most aspects of the story itself. In other words, this is basically just another version of the exact same film Ari Aster made with his first film. The guy is pitiful to say the least, and yet people seem to be eating it up. Sad, but true. And just like his first film Hereditary, this Rosemary's Baby type of story format reveal is done so much worse than it was done by Polanski in the late 1960's, that it just makes me cringe. Yikes!

    The film has good cinematography, and I got a few laughs out of it, though I'm sure most of those laughs were not at all what the makers of this film were hoping for. For my money, this was for the most part, a brutally bad film. Do you actually have ANY ideas of your own, Ari?

    3.5/10.
  • emmahildebrand-95185 - 17 November 2022
    I hate gore but was still on my top 10 of all time
    I don't particularly like gory stuff so that I'm still giving this film 10/10 says how good it is. Loved the actors, location, the Swedish, the weirdness and of course the GORGEOUS visuals. Some scenes were too disturbing for me tho, but I usually don't like horror. It's usually because the stories are absolute garbage but I loved this story.

    It's not for everyone, but I feel like people that are interested in films would like it. One of the best films I've ever seen, and again, I hate horror. I loved the ending and the way you didn't really know who you were rooting for. Such an interesting concept.
  • saikatsamanta - 29 October 2022
    More Weird than Scary...
    Midsommar is Ari Aster's second Horror venture after the Iconic 'Hereditary', this time telling the story of a Swedish commune celebrating the summer solstice where a lot of weird rituals happen. A Master of Atmospheric Horror, Ari Aster once again creates a visually stunning cinema with the score creating an eerie situation. Grief plays a big part in Ari's storytelling, this time it gets channeled through Florence Pugh's character, who lost her family in a tragic scenario & is looking for a place to belong. She did a fantastic job. The group of friends that joined her, their characters should have been more fleshed out. Rather than the intense horror of Hereditary, this film creates an atmosphere of weird discomfort and it never becomes really scary at all. The layers in the storytelling are interesting to unravel, but its mostly the visuals that keep you engaged.