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Friday 21 June 2019

Midsommar Review

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Ari Aster's Midsommar takes place in a placid and very remote Swedish village during a festive solstice ritual held only once every 90 years. The celebrants are placid and welcoming, all decked out in elaborate Swedish frockery evocative of butter cookies and saffron buns. The setting is pastoral and bright – the sun doesn't set for days at a time. It's a legitimately welcoming place resembling a summer camp or even a quaint local theme park. Even when Midsommar plunges deeply into murderous intrigue – as audiences will instantly sense; no cheery isolated Swedish cult ever has benevolent intentions – one still can't help but be allured by its bucolic surroundings. That's an elaborate way of saying that Midsommar – like the director's 2018 feature debut Hereditary – is a film that masterfully handles atmosphere, and that Aster is a legit new auteur in the horror community.

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