TMDB 7.1 2019 USA 148 min

Midsommar

Directed by Ari Aster

Let the festivities begin.

A couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural midsummer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat soon becomes a violent and disturbing ordeal at the hands of a pagan cult.

Starring
Florence PughJack ReynorWilliam Jackson HarperWill Poulter
with Vilhelm Blomgren, Isabelle Grill, Gunnel Fred, Ellora Torchia
Screenplay — Ari Aster
Cinematography — Pawel Pogorzelski
Music — Bobby Krlic
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Violence and the Sacred

Rene Girard

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