2019 · horror · drama
Midsommar
Directed by Ari Aster2h 27m2019
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.
Our read: Midsommar (2019) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive horror · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, extreme horror / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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