Midsommar

Film - 2019

8,1

121.8K

Midsommar it's a movie with Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Will Poulter, William Jackson Harper, Anna Åström Full cast. Directed by Ari Aster. Original title Midsommar, runtime 140 minutes. Genres Horror, Drama, Mystery.

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Refined and disturbing, but is there more style or more substance? of

Bongo

I waited a few days, after seeing it, before writing some thoughts on this film, because it is difficult to decipher. I understand why it caused opposite reactions among critics: I keep asking myself whether I saw an excellent film or a remarkable stupidity. From a certain point of view, even without being perfect (for example the special effects of some scenes did not completely convince me, the use of CGI was too obvious and a bit approximate, and the story in some points becomes a bit convoluted and unconvincing) could easily be defined, if not a masterpiece, certainly an extraordinary film, not only for the parameters of horror cinema: I think that finding such care in the direction of a horror film is quite rare and the film is rightly been compared to The Witch. It shares a lot with it in terms of result (both films, rather than frightening, disturb in a visceral and profound way) and stylistic research, although Robert Eggers' film is much more successful for me: I would watch The Witch many times, but I don't think I'll ever watch Midsommar again. Alongside the brutal splatter of some scenes there is also the remarkable beauty of others (for example those relating to the dance to elect the May Queen). Keeping the camera still for a few minutes during a dialogue between multiple characters, for example, is a conscious and almost courageous directorial choice, in an era in which films sometimes cause nausea due to the continuous, frenetic and unmotivated movement of the camera. Ari Aster is a director of considerable talent and if good morning starts in the morning he has a bright career ahead of him. The problem with this film, in my opinion, is that the line between sophistication and kitsch is very thin, Read all

MIDSOMMAR by Ari Aster of

Filippo Margionti

The phone ringing off the hook, Dani's answering machine message to her parents, her worried phone call, yet another, to Christian, her boyfriend... and everything that follows, up to those heartbreaking and heartbreaking screams on the cell phone and the images of the sister. The initial scene is crazy in terms of how it is constructed: this Midsommar had already convinced me like this, with the incipit. The rest of the film has some flaws, in the dilation of time (not always effective), in the predictability of everything and in the supporting characters who are a bit sketchy (the typical cannon fodder). However, I find it very interesting to make a genre film almost completely out in the open, in fact the fact that a young director on his second work makes a film like Midsommar - which cannot be appreciated by horror users who are all jumpscares - I find to say the least admirable. Furthermore, Pugh is very good, very communicative, and the ending all based on Dani's expressiveness is the icing on the cake. Dani watching his old life burn - or what little was left of it ... - as if coming to the Light a second time, being reborn from the ashes of the ugliness of the world that he knew and that broke her heart. A surprising, terrible, beautiful epilogue. In short, for me, who loves grieving-themed films, this is truly an excellent horror variant, after The Babadook and others! Read all

plot

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.