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SWEDEN · 2019

Midsommar

Ari Aster
folk horror cult rituals grief and trauma isolation and entrapment anthropological descent
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Synopsis

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.

Year2019
CountrySweden
DirectorAri Aster
Cinematic Threads
Kubrick, Haneke (Code Unknown was a big one for me), Lars von Trier, Robert Bresson, Roy Andersson, Gaspar Noe, Park Chan-wook, David Cronenberg, Woody Allen, Noah Baumbach, etc.
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