MIDSOMMAR – DIRECTOR’S CUT

Director: Ari Aster

US/Sweden, 170, NR

Screenwriter: Ari Aster

Cast: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Will Poulter, Vilhelm Blomgren, Archie Madekwe.

 

Don’t miss the just-released Director’s Cut, with an additional half hour that brings new depth to the main female character of Dani, played by Florence Pugh! Midsommar follows in the footsteps of Godzilla, Rosemary’s Baby and Get Out, by using horror to explore the fears of its time. A group of American grad students, including Dani, her toxic boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor) and his roommates, travel to Sweden to research how one New Pagan commune celebrates the ancient rituals of Midsommar. Harga is idyllic, a place where traumas (such a Dani has recently gone through) can be overcome with the help of psychotropic wildflowers and – well, we won’t give it all away.

“A must-see! Aster is out to unsettle us in primal ways, and he does by addressing the real-world horror that America, and maybe the world, now faces.” Owen Gleiberman, Variety.