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Midsommar

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• Horror
• Mystery

• 2019
• Ari Aster
• 141 mins
• 18

Summary

College student Dani Ardor is traumatised after her sister Terri kills herself and their parents. The following summer, she and boyfriend Christian travel to Sweden to visit a rural mid-summer festival organised by a pagan cult. Before long they are mixed up in a nightmare of drugs and death. Horror, starring Florence Pugh, Will Poulter and Jack Reynor

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Dave Aldridge

This enjoyably daft but long-winded riff on The Wicker Man sees Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor and Will Poulter among a bunch of young people falling foul of pagan practices when they injudiciously drop in on a remote Swedish village's summer solstice celebrations. Directed by Ari Aster, the man who made hit horror film Hereditary, Midsommar revels in the notion that things that traditionally go bump in the night can equally well go bump in broad daylight. And in the idea that sunshine, sweetness and smiles can cloak far darker designs. And, for a time, in this land of the midnight sun, they do. And creepily so. But the novelty of high-noon horror wears ripely thin and risible over an overlong running time. Midsommar is slicker than The Wicker Man, but can't match the "wow" moment of Edward Woodward's journey to Summerisle (or Britt Ekland's dance), though it offers an underwhelming equivalent of the former if not the latter.

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7.1/10

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Credits

Cast

rolenameDaniFlorence PughChristianJack ReynorMarkWill PoulterJoshWilliam Jackson HarperPelleVilhelm BlomgrenSimonArchie MadekweConnieEllora TorchiaKarinAnna AstromUlfHenrik Norlen

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rolenameDirectorAri Aster

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Theatrical distributor

Entertainment

Released on

2019-07-05

Languages

English | Swedish

Guidance

Violence, swearing, sex scenes, nudity, drug abuse

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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