Dan and Christian are on the verge of falling apart when tragedy strikes Dan’s family. Devastated by the loss of a young woman, Christian cannot leave her alone and takes her and his friends to a festival held only once every 90 years in an isolated Swedish village.
But what begins as a carefree vacation in the land where the sun never sets quickly takes a far more sinister turn…
“Midsommar digs deep into something unspeakable and unspeakable”
“Like all memorable horror films, it delves deep into the unspeakable and unspeakable, and the violence is as emotional as it is physical.”. Martin Scorsese gave Midsomer his blessing.
Author of the excellent horror/horror film Toni Collette Carries High, The Hereditary (2018), director Ari Astaire, in her second film, entrusts the title role to Florence Pugh in this work, which hit our screens in 2019.
And that’s not to say that Oppenheimer’s up-and-coming actor gave it his all for the role, at the cost of his increasingly vulnerable mental health.
A role that pushed the actor to the limit, as he confided: “When I was filming, I was very busy. I’ve never played someone in so much pain, and I put myself in really bad situations to do it. Other actors might not have to do it, but I imagined it. The scariest thing.”
add: “Every day I found it harder and harder to do, I put things in my head that got darker and darker. I think in the end I was really abusing myself to get this performance.”
An absolutely horrifying and paralyzing spectacle, a pure nightmare experienced with eyes wide open, Midsommar is a real gem in the landscape of horror cinema, too often formatted. To watch (or re-watch!) on Prime Video.
Source: Allocine
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