IMDb plot summary: A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Directed by Ari Aster. Starring Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, and Vilhelm Blomgren.
Midsommar is an Ari Aster horror movie starring Florence Pugh as a woman who just lost her whole family under horrific circumstances, and finds herself tagging along with her boyfriend and his college friends to a remote Swedish commune to celebrate midsummer. I wasn't as taken with Aster's previous film Hereditary as many were, so my efforts to watch his follow-up just kept taking a backseat, and I'm glad to have finally gotten around to this, because this is *great*. For the first time I fully understand the Florence Pugh hype, because she is truly incredible in this film, just overflowing with grief she's trying not to express. There's a scene near the end of the film where she's finally able to let it out and not be alone, and it's one of the most powerful film moments I've seen in awhile. The more overtly horror elements of the movie are terrifyingly done -- I felt so keenly the entire time just how flimsy and easy-to-destroy the human body is. And the ending works for me on just about every level. This movie is fantastic, I'm definitely going to be thinking about it for a long time, and I'm glad I got the nudge to finally watch it.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Midsommar > VeggieTales: Madame Blueberry
Midsommar > The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Midsommar > Network
Midsommar > Gravity
Midsommar < The Lives of Others
Midsommar < Gaslight
Midsommar < All of Us Strangers
Midsommar < Everything Everywhere All at Once
Midsommar > Fright Night (1985)
Midsommar < Tick, Tick... Boom!
Midsommar > 28 Days Later
Midsommar < Two Lovers and a Bear
Final spot: #239 out of 3995, or 94%.
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