Review: Midsommar is a shocking tale of grief
was about the repellant nature of grief—its squalor and ugliness—then Aster’s sophomore film,, is about the allowance that comes after that. But this film, out July 3, is no relieving balm. Instead, it finds the washed-out horror of what follows primary pain—the danger we might seek, court, and need when all the trappings of our life have been undone by unimaginable loss.
What follows the opening’s hideous reveal grows ever more surreal, as Dani and Christian head to Sweden for a religious rite in a closed-off rural community to be observed by Christian and his anthropology grad student pals as the guest of a shifty colleague. Dani tags along because she doesn’t want to be left behind, a social awkwardness piercingly communicated by cast and script. But she’s also there because she’s so hungry for any sense of shape, of definition.
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