Midsommar
First screened in July 2019
Director: Ari Aster. Cast: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren, William Jackson Harper, Will Poulter, Hampus Hallberg, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe, Isabelle Grill, Henrik Norlén, Gunnel Fred, Mats Blomgren, Julia Ragnarsson, Levente Puczkó-Smith. Screenplay: Ari Aster.

Twitter Capsule: Constructs fertile character dynamics only to spend two hours failing to capitalize on them. Green sea of cheap tricks.

VOR:   Unusually bright light; some distinctive makeup work, visual effects, and tonal gambits. But it all adds up to something we'd be just fine without.



Photo © 2019 A24

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: C


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