Ari Aster, the twisted filmmaker behind Hereditary, Midsommar, and Beau Is Afraid, is lining up his most star-studded feature yet, Eddington. Rumored to be a Western, Eddington is moseying close to production with Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us), Emma Stone (Poor Things), Austin Butler (Dune: Part Two), Joaquin Phoenix (Beau Is Afraid), Luke Grimes (Yellowstone), Deirdre O’Connell (Outer Range), Michael Ward (Top Boy), and Clifton Collins Jr. (Jockey) joining the primary cast.
The mysterious project hails from A24, with Aster directing from his own script. Additionally, Aster produces alongside Lars Knudsen through their Square Peg studio. Darius Khondji, the Academy Award-winning cinematographer behind Bardo and Uncut Gems, is on board to make the film stunning, with production beginning as early as this week.
Aster is one of Hollywood’s most talked about filmmakers of recent memory. His 2018 horror film Hereditary, starring Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne, and Alex Wolff,...
The mysterious project hails from A24, with Aster directing from his own script. Additionally, Aster produces alongside Lars Knudsen through their Square Peg studio. Darius Khondji, the Academy Award-winning cinematographer behind Bardo and Uncut Gems, is on board to make the film stunning, with production beginning as early as this week.
Aster is one of Hollywood’s most talked about filmmakers of recent memory. His 2018 horror film Hereditary, starring Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne, and Alex Wolff,...
- 3/12/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
REinvent Intl. Sales, the banner launched by former TrustNordisk CEO Rikke Ennis, has picked up “In the Name of God,” a thriller about a priest on a mission to expand his congregation at any cost.
The film is directed by Ludvig Gür (“Pretending I’m a Superman: The Tony Hawk Video Game Story”) and stars Linus Wahlgren, Vilhelm Blomgren and Lisa Henni. The movie just wrapped filming.
The film revolves around Theodor, a 40-year-old priest whose world unravel after his wife becomes ill. He becomes convinced that he has been chosen by God to rid the world of sinners in order to bring new life to true believers.
“In the Name of God” is produced by Silverbullet Film by Daniel Lägersten in cooperation with executive producers Daniel Berntsson and Wahlgren with support from CANfilm and LjudBang. REinvent handles international sales.
“ ‘In the Name of God’ plays with good and evil...
The film is directed by Ludvig Gür (“Pretending I’m a Superman: The Tony Hawk Video Game Story”) and stars Linus Wahlgren, Vilhelm Blomgren and Lisa Henni. The movie just wrapped filming.
The film revolves around Theodor, a 40-year-old priest whose world unravel after his wife becomes ill. He becomes convinced that he has been chosen by God to rid the world of sinners in order to bring new life to true believers.
“In the Name of God” is produced by Silverbullet Film by Daniel Lägersten in cooperation with executive producers Daniel Berntsson and Wahlgren with support from CANfilm and LjudBang. REinvent handles international sales.
“ ‘In the Name of God’ plays with good and evil...
- 5/16/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Julia Ragnarsson and Erik Enge (“Tiger”) are the two leading stars of “End of Summer,” a psychological thriller series based Anders de la Motte’s bestselling Swedish novel of the same name. The show has been ordered by Viaplay and is being produced by Harmonica Films with Sf Studios and Film i Skåne co-producing.
Björn Carlström (“The Hunters”) and Stefan Thunberg (“Hamilton”) are the head writers on the series which shot in Skåne in the southern part of Sweden and will premiere in the fall on Viaplay.
The cast also includes Simon J Berger (“Exit”), Torkel Petersson (“A Swedish Defence”), Per Ragnar (“Let the Right One In”), Linus James Nilsson, Anna Granath, Emelie Garbers, Henrik Norlén, Bahador Foladi, Vilhelm Blomgren and Lars Schilken.
The six-episode series opens on a summer evening in 1984 when a 5-year-old boy vanishes in rural southern Sweden. The police investigation fails to find the truth, leaving behind rumors,...
Björn Carlström (“The Hunters”) and Stefan Thunberg (“Hamilton”) are the head writers on the series which shot in Skåne in the southern part of Sweden and will premiere in the fall on Viaplay.
The cast also includes Simon J Berger (“Exit”), Torkel Petersson (“A Swedish Defence”), Per Ragnar (“Let the Right One In”), Linus James Nilsson, Anna Granath, Emelie Garbers, Henrik Norlén, Bahador Foladi, Vilhelm Blomgren and Lars Schilken.
The six-episode series opens on a summer evening in 1984 when a 5-year-old boy vanishes in rural southern Sweden. The police investigation fails to find the truth, leaving behind rumors,...
- 2/2/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Old folk traditions can sometimes seem a little bewildering to an outsider, especially in another country where local customs are already familiar. I'm not a huge fan of "Midsommar," but this is a key element of folk horror that Ari Aster gets right; that feeling of otherness you might get when finding yourself in a field surrounded by people all singing, dancing, drinking, and performing strange rituals.
I also speak from experience because I live in the Czech Republic, a country that generally engages in ancient traditions far more often than back in the UK. It took me a little while to adjust to some of the shenanigans that go on around here: The first time I saw some guys chasing a woman with canes at Easter time, I thought she was being attacked. It just turned out it was an old fertility rite and you can buy the canes,...
I also speak from experience because I live in the Czech Republic, a country that generally engages in ancient traditions far more often than back in the UK. It took me a little while to adjust to some of the shenanigans that go on around here: The first time I saw some guys chasing a woman with canes at Easter time, I thought she was being attacked. It just turned out it was an old fertility rite and you can buy the canes,...
- 11/6/2022
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
Director Ari Aster is building a reputation as a modern master of horror. His 2019 folk-horror film about an idyllic Scandinavian retreat that is gradually revealed to be a dangerous cult celebration is unforgettable in its strange depravity. Like Aster's "Hereditary," "Midsommar" is a slow-burn horror movie with plenty of foreshadowing and increasingly unsettling imagery. Since its release, the film has been thoroughly analyzed and picked apart. Still, there's a new discovery to be made every time you watch.
There's an abundance of fan theories surrounding "Midsommar" that highlight Aster's talent for indicating the fate of his characters early on in the film. If you closely examine the opening tapestry, you'll notice that it lays out (in a stylized fairy tale format) the entire plot of the movie to come. This foreshadowing continues throughout the film in many forms. The paintings in the bunkhouse also signal future events, and a framed...
There's an abundance of fan theories surrounding "Midsommar" that highlight Aster's talent for indicating the fate of his characters early on in the film. If you closely examine the opening tapestry, you'll notice that it lays out (in a stylized fairy tale format) the entire plot of the movie to come. This foreshadowing continues throughout the film in many forms. The paintings in the bunkhouse also signal future events, and a framed...
- 10/31/2022
- by Fatemeh Mirjalili
- Slash Film
Cannes – REinvent International Sales has sold the refugee drama ‘Lost’ to AMC Networks for Spain and Portugal.
The Scandi production-distribtion shingle is presenting the title to buyers at this week’s Mipcom TV market in Cannes.
Created by Ulf Ryberg, the drama thriller tells the story of a truck driver smuggling a group of Syrian refugees into Sweden in his truck. An upsetting phone call from his soon to be ex-wife, leaves the refugees struggling for air, when his mind wanders off them.
The series is directed by Tova Magnusson (“The Most Prohibited”) and produced by Patrick Ryborn (“Backstabbing for Beginners”).
This Swedish-language film is produced by Unlimited Stories where Ryborn is a co-founder and producer. Peter Viitanen, Ville Virtanen, Sandra Stojiljkovic, Vilhelm Blomgren, Shaniaz Hama Ali star.
The six one-hour series will be released on Nov. 7. on the Swedish pubcaster Svt.
Helene Aurø, REinvent’s sales and marketing director,...
The Scandi production-distribtion shingle is presenting the title to buyers at this week’s Mipcom TV market in Cannes.
Created by Ulf Ryberg, the drama thriller tells the story of a truck driver smuggling a group of Syrian refugees into Sweden in his truck. An upsetting phone call from his soon to be ex-wife, leaves the refugees struggling for air, when his mind wanders off them.
The series is directed by Tova Magnusson (“The Most Prohibited”) and produced by Patrick Ryborn (“Backstabbing for Beginners”).
This Swedish-language film is produced by Unlimited Stories where Ryborn is a co-founder and producer. Peter Viitanen, Ville Virtanen, Sandra Stojiljkovic, Vilhelm Blomgren, Shaniaz Hama Ali star.
The six one-hour series will be released on Nov. 7. on the Swedish pubcaster Svt.
Helene Aurø, REinvent’s sales and marketing director,...
- 10/17/2022
- by Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
During a year in which the world finds itself increasingly in the throes of totalitarianism and corruption, when institutions, traditions and good old common sense seems to be crumbling before our very eyes, when the world itself appears to be catching fire, a spirit of thanksgiving may be one that is hard to come by. But there are reasons to give thanks even in light of those realities, ones even directly to those realities, and I encourage you to seek out those reasons, be as grateful as is warranted, and find ways to express that gratitude. In other words, don’t let the bastards get you down.
In the world of the movies, there was the usual degree of lousy movies, some franchise-related, of course, but some that were pretty shitty of their own accord. And at the same time, there were lots of reasons to justify gratitude. Here are...
In the world of the movies, there was the usual degree of lousy movies, some franchise-related, of course, but some that were pretty shitty of their own accord. And at the same time, there were lots of reasons to justify gratitude. Here are...
- 11/25/2019
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
A24 is often behind some of the best trailers of the year (just look at the wild “Uncut Gems” trailer the distributor released yesterday), but the studio’s marketing team has truly outdone itself by offering free couples therapy to celebrate the digital release of Ari Aster’s “Midsommar.” A24 has partnered with online and mobile therapy company Talkspace to give away free three months of couples therapy to viewers. All one has to do to enter is comment on the video below on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook by tagging a friend or significant other.
“Midsommar” opened in July and made just under $30 million at the U.S. box office. Aster’s film is widely regarded as one of the most horrifying breakup movies ever made, so it’s only appropriate that A24 is offering up three months of free couples therapy. IndieWire chief critic Eric Kohn called the movie...
“Midsommar” opened in July and made just under $30 million at the U.S. box office. Aster’s film is widely regarded as one of the most horrifying breakup movies ever made, so it’s only appropriate that A24 is offering up three months of free couples therapy. IndieWire chief critic Eric Kohn called the movie...
- 9/25/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Summer may be coming to a close, but sommar is just beginning this Labor Day weekend. Following its world premiere earlier this month in New York City, Ari Aster's unrated director's cut of Midsommar is coming to select theaters this weekend.
Brimming with new footage and extended scenes that give viewers a more in-depth look at the horrifyingly hypnotic festivities of Midsommar, the unrated director's cut will be released by A24 in select theaters across the Us over a four-day span beginning Friday, August 30th and running through Tuesday, September 3rd. Check here to see if the Midsommar director's cut will be playing at a theater near you.
You can watch a new promo video for the director's cut below, and in case you missed it, check here to catch up on our previous coverage of Midsommar, including our Corpse Club episode on the film and details on the...
Brimming with new footage and extended scenes that give viewers a more in-depth look at the horrifyingly hypnotic festivities of Midsommar, the unrated director's cut will be released by A24 in select theaters across the Us over a four-day span beginning Friday, August 30th and running through Tuesday, September 3rd. Check here to see if the Midsommar director's cut will be playing at a theater near you.
You can watch a new promo video for the director's cut below, and in case you missed it, check here to catch up on our previous coverage of Midsommar, including our Corpse Club episode on the film and details on the...
- 8/27/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
After a six-year hiatus, Lukas Moodysson is back in the director’s chair with a 12-part TV series for HBO Europe. Any new work by Lukas Moodysson is going to be worth watching. His first television series, produced by HBO Europe, tackles many of the themes he has discussed in his seven narrative features, from 1998’s Fucking Åmål (aka Show Me Love) to his 2013 teen punk musical We Are the Best!, which played at the Venice Film Festival. The 12-part series Gösta is a comedy that mocks Swedish niceties, featuring stories about refugees, broken families, failed relationships and the desire to do good, with a particular focus on teen lives. Vilhelm Blomgren's character of Gösta is at the heart of each of the half-hour episodes. Gösta has just transferred to the small village of Småland, where he is starting his career as a psychiatrist. Gösta wants to be kind to.
Midsommar A24 Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Ari Aster Screenwriter: Ari Aster Cast: Florench Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Archie Madekwe, Ellora Torchia, Will Poulter Screened at: Tribeca, NYC, 7/1/19 Opens: July 3, 2019 When you go to Europe on vacation, what do you […]
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- 7/12/2019
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
With just two movies, the 31-year-old writer-director Ari Aster has carved out a special place for himself. He’s making luxuriously dread-infused art horror films for the megaplex. It’s not necessarily a unique place: Jordan Peele got there first — and it’s telling that in the work of both filmmakers, you can feel the thread of ’60s and ’70s horror running through a gripping new consciousness. Yet Aster, in last year’s domestic ghost-story shocker “Hereditary,” and in his new movie, the epic pastoral Swedish commune creep-out “Midsommar,” has created a niche that’s destined to be controversial, because he’s throwing mainstream audiences curveballs right and left.
“Hereditary” was the rare horror film that had an ambition as deep, wide, and complexly disturbing as that of any independent feature. In “Midsommar,” Aster’s reach is even bolder — he has made a sun-dappled socio-pagan cult nightmare that connects to...
“Hereditary” was the rare horror film that had an ambition as deep, wide, and complexly disturbing as that of any independent feature. In “Midsommar,” Aster’s reach is even bolder — he has made a sun-dappled socio-pagan cult nightmare that connects to...
- 7/4/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Will Poulter, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe, Dag Andersson, Björn Andrésen, Anders Back | Written and Directed by Ari Aster
Midsommar is the sophomore effort and highly anticipated follow up in director Ari Aster’s filmography, after his critically acclaimed directorial feature debut Hereditary, released in 2018. Midsommar follows Dani (Florence Pugh) along with her boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor) and two of his classmates Mark and Josh (Will Poulter and William Jackson Harper) who are invited to a rural mid-summer festival that takes place every ninety years in Sweden. Much like Aster’s predecessor, it is best to head into Midsommar with as little knowledge as possible regarding the events within the film. Avoid all trailers and promotional material and what you’ll experience is a spellbinding majestic provocative horror at its most dire and gleeful best.
The greatest strength of Aster’s...
Midsommar is the sophomore effort and highly anticipated follow up in director Ari Aster’s filmography, after his critically acclaimed directorial feature debut Hereditary, released in 2018. Midsommar follows Dani (Florence Pugh) along with her boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor) and two of his classmates Mark and Josh (Will Poulter and William Jackson Harper) who are invited to a rural mid-summer festival that takes place every ninety years in Sweden. Much like Aster’s predecessor, it is best to head into Midsommar with as little knowledge as possible regarding the events within the film. Avoid all trailers and promotional material and what you’ll experience is a spellbinding majestic provocative horror at its most dire and gleeful best.
The greatest strength of Aster’s...
- 7/4/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Don Kaye Jul 4, 2019
Actor Will Poulter says Midsommar’s eerie rural village never felt like a movie set.
A group of American college friends set out on a trek to Sweden in Midsommar, the second horror feature from Hereditary writer/director Ari Aster. Among the group are Dani (Florence Pugh), who’s traumatized by a family tragedy and the downward spiral of her relationship with Christian (Jack Reynor), who’s also on the trip. Joining them are anthropology student Josh (William Jackson Harper) and Christian’s friend Mark (Will Poulter) a loud-mouthed, boorish misogynist whose interests extend mainly to screwing as many Swedish girls as he can.
They are guided by Pelle (Vilhelm Blomgren), a Swedish exchange student who is taking them to his ancestral tribe’s remote village for a festival that happens only once every 90 years. Once they arrive in the land of the Harga, the group’s...
Actor Will Poulter says Midsommar’s eerie rural village never felt like a movie set.
A group of American college friends set out on a trek to Sweden in Midsommar, the second horror feature from Hereditary writer/director Ari Aster. Among the group are Dani (Florence Pugh), who’s traumatized by a family tragedy and the downward spiral of her relationship with Christian (Jack Reynor), who’s also on the trip. Joining them are anthropology student Josh (William Jackson Harper) and Christian’s friend Mark (Will Poulter) a loud-mouthed, boorish misogynist whose interests extend mainly to screwing as many Swedish girls as he can.
They are guided by Pelle (Vilhelm Blomgren), a Swedish exchange student who is taking them to his ancestral tribe’s remote village for a festival that happens only once every 90 years. Once they arrive in the land of the Harga, the group’s...
- 7/4/2019
- Den of Geek
With Hereditary, writer/director Ari Aster brilliantly took on the horrors of mental illness and family with wicked results. And now he is back with something equally strange, beautiful, funny and downright f*cked up. This is Midsommar and it's one of the best and most provocative thrillers of the year. The film features Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor as a troubled couple who end up taking a trip with their friend Pelle (Vilhelm Blomgren) to visit his family in Sweden for…...
- 7/3/2019
- by JimmyO
- JoBlo.com
Last year, Hereditary announced the arrival of a unique filmmaker in Ari Aster. Regardless of whether you loved or hated the movie, it was a distinctive vision, one that was impossible to ignore. Now, this week brings Aster’s sophomore outing in Midsummer, and he’s upped his game, both in terms of ambition and scale, as well as, in my humble opinion, execution as well. Though I was somewhat underwhelmed by Hereditary, Midsommar is one of the best films of 2019 so far. Bold and uncompromising, Aster has a voice that’s essential within the genre. This is an absolute must see to start July off with. You’ve never seen anything quite like it. Things start off somewhat slowly, by design. Dani (Florence Pugh) is a grad student worried not just about her relationship with fellow student Christian (Jack Reynor), but also an ominous message from her sister. When...
- 7/3/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Ari Aster’s sophomore feature Midsommar isn’t a horror movie in the typical sense—or, at least, that’s what the marketing campaign of its U.S. distributor A24 (to say nothing of the critical discourse surrounding the film) would have you believe. Made directly following the success of his acclaimed debut Hereditary (2018), the film reportedly started out as a slasher movie, and although it's now something quite different, it retains the general framework of one. The deaths of its principal characters are less a matter of if, but when, and are presented with enough gruesome variation to satisfy even the most avid gore-hounds. But as Midsommar unfolds predominantly under Sweden’s “midnight sun,” the film has the supposed distinction of being the brightest horror film ever made, with more than a few scenes blindingly, intentionally overexposed in a transparent bid for that superlative. It is also, we are meant to gather,...
- 7/2/2019
- MUBI
With nearly every line or act in his shocking 2018 debut Hereditary, writer-director Ari Aster examined the ubiquity of grief. The walls containing a strained family trembled with sorrow and unforgiveness, until they were eventually torn down by the supernatural threats they let stir beneath them. Now, the young filmmaker expands his conversation of the grim subject in Midsommar, exploring the impositions grief lays not only upon the mourning, but those left standing nearby as well.
That’s not to say the focus rests upon the onlookers, however. Aster’s position still stands firmly with the bequeathed as her tortured state unravels her inner workings, leaving her exposed to the menaces that’ll soon be. And like Hereditary, the catalyst for this knee-buckling anguish takes no time at all to rear its ugly head.
Before any of that takes place, or is at least confirmed, Dani (the beguiling Florence Pugh) already...
That’s not to say the focus rests upon the onlookers, however. Aster’s position still stands firmly with the bequeathed as her tortured state unravels her inner workings, leaving her exposed to the menaces that’ll soon be. And like Hereditary, the catalyst for this knee-buckling anguish takes no time at all to rear its ugly head.
Before any of that takes place, or is at least confirmed, Dani (the beguiling Florence Pugh) already...
- 7/2/2019
- by Luke Parker
- We Got This Covered
David Crow Jul 2, 2019
We dive into the grisly twists and turns of Ari Aster's Midsommar, and what they mean for the central relationship and beyond.
This article contains major Midsommar spoilers.
Sometimes the best way to stop the bleeding of a wound is to cauterize it. So it was when Dani finally began to heal from the carnage of a personal trauma—and a quieter lingering one—by watching Christian burn to ash in the final moments of Ari Aster’s pastel-colored nightmare. It is an image loaded with allegorical significance as one lover says goodbye to another in a billowy plume, which is scored to the screams of other men in the same burning hut who clearly did feel pain. It’s also one that confirms the truth of Aster’s confession at our screening: he wrote this during the end of a relationship. Don’t worry, he’s better now.
We dive into the grisly twists and turns of Ari Aster's Midsommar, and what they mean for the central relationship and beyond.
This article contains major Midsommar spoilers.
Sometimes the best way to stop the bleeding of a wound is to cauterize it. So it was when Dani finally began to heal from the carnage of a personal trauma—and a quieter lingering one—by watching Christian burn to ash in the final moments of Ari Aster’s pastel-colored nightmare. It is an image loaded with allegorical significance as one lover says goodbye to another in a billowy plume, which is scored to the screams of other men in the same burning hut who clearly did feel pain. It’s also one that confirms the truth of Aster’s confession at our screening: he wrote this during the end of a relationship. Don’t worry, he’s better now.
- 7/2/2019
- Den of Geek
In just a few hours, writer/director Ari Aster’s latest genre effort, Midsommar, is set to arrive in theaters around the country. But before we raise our glasses and get lost in all the festivities, we’ve got one last set of interviews with three of the film’s co-stars from the recent Midsommar press day: Will Poulter, William Jackson Harper, and Vilhelm Blomgren.
During the interview, the trio talked about how Aster’s work on Hereditary made him a filmmaker that they were excited to work with on this latest project, how the script for Midsommar was unlike anything they had ever read before, and their experiences on being immersed in the world of Hälsingland while shooting the film together in Hungary.
Check out our video interview with Poulter, Harper, and Blomgren below, go Here to catch up on our previous coverage of Midsommar, and be sure to...
During the interview, the trio talked about how Aster’s work on Hereditary made him a filmmaker that they were excited to work with on this latest project, how the script for Midsommar was unlike anything they had ever read before, and their experiences on being immersed in the world of Hälsingland while shooting the film together in Hungary.
Check out our video interview with Poulter, Harper, and Blomgren below, go Here to catch up on our previous coverage of Midsommar, and be sure to...
- 7/2/2019
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Ari Aster is a bold new voice in psychological horror, the kind that messes ruthlessly with your head. He proved that last year with Hereditary, featuring Toni Colette in one of cinema’s most memorable meltdowns. And now, with the hypnotic and haunting Midsommar, he ventures into fresh territory without losing his grasp of what nightmares are made of.
Aster wittily calls his follow-up a “breakup movie.” He came up with the script while going through his own parting of the ways. That’s as personal as this filmmaker gets in interviews.
Aster wittily calls his follow-up a “breakup movie.” He came up with the script while going through his own parting of the ways. That’s as personal as this filmmaker gets in interviews.
- 7/2/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Hereditary was so 2018.
Writer-director Ari Aster is back, back, back with Midsommar, and though we tend to approach new horror releases with a sense of cautious optimism, with Aster’s sophomore effort, we’re inclined to believe the hype.
For one, Jordan Peele of Get Out, Us and The Twilight Zone fame went on record to say that Midsommar is crammed full of “atrociously disturbing imagery,” and it seems the Motion Picture Association of America agrees with him. The official rating from the MPAA is a hard R, citing “disturbing ritualistic violence, grisly images, strong sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language.” Where do we sign up?
And sure enough, studio A24 reveled in the MPAA’s decision, tweeting the following certificate:
Finally reached an agreement with the MPAA #Midsommar pic.twitter.com/FVk28f8T1g
— A24 (@A24) June 25, 2019
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Writer-director Ari Aster is back, back, back with Midsommar, and though we tend to approach new horror releases with a sense of cautious optimism, with Aster’s sophomore effort, we’re inclined to believe the hype.
For one, Jordan Peele of Get Out, Us and The Twilight Zone fame went on record to say that Midsommar is crammed full of “atrociously disturbing imagery,” and it seems the Motion Picture Association of America agrees with him. The official rating from the MPAA is a hard R, citing “disturbing ritualistic violence, grisly images, strong sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language.” Where do we sign up?
And sure enough, studio A24 reveled in the MPAA’s decision, tweeting the following certificate:
Finally reached an agreement with the MPAA #Midsommar pic.twitter.com/FVk28f8T1g
— A24 (@A24) June 25, 2019
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- 6/26/2019
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
From "Skin the Fool" to a creepy twist on bingo, there's no shortage of eerie activities happening in the new trailer for Ari Aster's Midsommar, which A24 has released in celebration of the longest day of the year: the summer solstice.
Written and directed by Ari Aster, Midsommar stars Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren,
Archie Madekwe, Ellora Torchia, and Will Poulter. A24 will unleash Midsommar in theaters on July 3rd.
You can watch the new trailer (and the previously released trailer) below, and in case you missed it, read Heather Wixson's 4-star review of Midsommar.
Synopsis: "Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, a grieving Dani invites herself to join Christian and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village.
Written and directed by Ari Aster, Midsommar stars Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren,
Archie Madekwe, Ellora Torchia, and Will Poulter. A24 will unleash Midsommar in theaters on July 3rd.
You can watch the new trailer (and the previously released trailer) below, and in case you missed it, read Heather Wixson's 4-star review of Midsommar.
Synopsis: "Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, a grieving Dani invites herself to join Christian and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village.
- 6/21/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Try as it might to seduce you with its innocuous farm setting and Kumbaya vibes, writer-director Ari Aster’s “Midsommar” is just about the coldest — and most puzzling — film to be released so far this year. And that’s not because it centers on what turns out to be a cult community with frightening ulterior motives. It’s because none of its core characters, including the female protagonist, make any rational decisions (while being too distant to care about anyway).
This isolation happens early in the film, as it drops audiences into a heightened narrative already in motion, leaving viewers rushing to catch up to what’s going on. Dani (Pugh) is at her wit’s end searching for her missing sister, who left her a cryptic note. She feverishly messages her sister, who may or may not have a history of emotional instability (it’s never really defined in...
This isolation happens early in the film, as it drops audiences into a heightened narrative already in motion, leaving viewers rushing to catch up to what’s going on. Dani (Pugh) is at her wit’s end searching for her missing sister, who left her a cryptic note. She feverishly messages her sister, who may or may not have a history of emotional instability (it’s never really defined in...
- 6/19/2019
- by Candice Frederick
- The Wrap
Midsommar, Ari Aster's follow-up to Hereditary, is a more ambiguous and internalized horror that will smother you with kindness.
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Youth is called the spring of life. Which is to say everything is in bloom when you’re young. But what is it to be youthful? Increasingly modern society keeps moving the goalpost of “young adulthood,” be it from actual adolescence to college, or now post-grad age to thirtysomethings stating they’re “adulting.” This is refreshingly not the case for the friendly Swedish commune in Midsommar though. Instead, the fair-haired and blue-eyed denizens of Ari Aster’s latest genre-bending perversion are fair to a fault. They make no illusions when they reveal their religion considers each person’s lifecycle as entering summer by the age of 18 and autumn by 36. And winter? Let’s just say it gets cold real fast.
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Youth is called the spring of life. Which is to say everything is in bloom when you’re young. But what is it to be youthful? Increasingly modern society keeps moving the goalpost of “young adulthood,” be it from actual adolescence to college, or now post-grad age to thirtysomethings stating they’re “adulting.” This is refreshingly not the case for the friendly Swedish commune in Midsommar though. Instead, the fair-haired and blue-eyed denizens of Ari Aster’s latest genre-bending perversion are fair to a fault. They make no illusions when they reveal their religion considers each person’s lifecycle as entering summer by the age of 18 and autumn by 36. And winter? Let’s just say it gets cold real fast.
As a community founded on an empathy...
- 6/19/2019
- Den of Geek
Much like his previous effort Hereditary, writer/director Ari Aster once again relentlessly picks at the gaping wounds of grief and loss in his latest film, Midsommar, albeit both stories could not be more different from each other in their approach. Whereas his feature-length directorial debut was a weighty exploration of familial trauma and how it can consume and destroy everyone around you, Midsommar is more about how we project our grief onto others and sometimes latch onto less than ideal individuals while we’re in the midst of feeling desperate and isolated, all set against the backdrop of a sun-bleached hallucinatory nightmare that’s deeply unsettling at times.
That being said, while I do enjoy both of Aster’s filmic projects a great deal, I still feel that when it comes to delivering a cinematic gut punch and/or nerve-shredding terror, Hereditary achieves it far more confidently than Midsommar does,...
That being said, while I do enjoy both of Aster’s filmic projects a great deal, I still feel that when it comes to delivering a cinematic gut punch and/or nerve-shredding terror, Hereditary achieves it far more confidently than Midsommar does,...
- 6/19/2019
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
“Midsommar” begins with a traumatic event and ends on a perverse sex scene, capped off by devious, vengeful circumstances at once cathartic and macabre. To that end, it’s a natural extension of the grim cinematic universe that spawned “Hereditary,” writer-director Ari Aster’s disturbing 2018 debut, but this sprawling follow-up has more audacious intentions. It’s the kind of mad science filmmaking worth rooting for: Aster refashions “The Wicker Man” as a perverse breakup movie, douses Swedish mythology in Bergmanesque despair, and sets the epic collage ablaze. He may not land every big swing, but the underlying vision is hard to shake even when it falters.
As with “Hereditary,” Aster has crafted a complex allegory for grief and anger against the backdrop of more symbolic threats. But this time, they’re hiding in plain sight: Perhaps the first bonafide horror movie to take place exclusively in daylight, “Midsommar” unfolds against...
As with “Hereditary,” Aster has crafted a complex allegory for grief and anger against the backdrop of more symbolic threats. But this time, they’re hiding in plain sight: Perhaps the first bonafide horror movie to take place exclusively in daylight, “Midsommar” unfolds against...
- 6/19/2019
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Ari Aster can likely cross off “sophomore slump” from his list of many nightmares.
Distributor A24 let loose the follow-up to the director’s widely praised, commercial hit debut “Hereditary” with two buzz screenings, which ran simultaneously in New York and Los Angeles on Tuesday night. Response was almost unanimously positive, if not significantly rattled.
“Holy s—,” wrote Slash Film’s Chris Evangelista, adding that the movie was “disturbing” but an absolute “crowd pleaser.” Dozens of early viewers complimented Aster’s ability to create plausible terror in broad daylight, while others reveled in a leading performance from on-the-verge indie darling Florence Pugh and the deadpan bro antics of her costar Will Poulter.
“Delightful from its nightmare of an opening to its floral purge of a finale,” said IndieWire’s David Ehrlich.
“I don’t know that I’ve ever felt so gutted and seen by a movie. I felt sick,...
Distributor A24 let loose the follow-up to the director’s widely praised, commercial hit debut “Hereditary” with two buzz screenings, which ran simultaneously in New York and Los Angeles on Tuesday night. Response was almost unanimously positive, if not significantly rattled.
“Holy s—,” wrote Slash Film’s Chris Evangelista, adding that the movie was “disturbing” but an absolute “crowd pleaser.” Dozens of early viewers complimented Aster’s ability to create plausible terror in broad daylight, while others reveled in a leading performance from on-the-verge indie darling Florence Pugh and the deadpan bro antics of her costar Will Poulter.
“Delightful from its nightmare of an opening to its floral purge of a finale,” said IndieWire’s David Ehrlich.
“I don’t know that I’ve ever felt so gutted and seen by a movie. I felt sick,...
- 6/19/2019
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Horror movie fans better get ready for Ari Aster’s “Midsommar” to terrorize them for a long time at the movies. A24 confirms with IndieWire the official runtime for the director’s “Hereditary” follow-up is 140 minutes, which means the writer-director’s pagan cult horror movie will deliver 13 more minutes of scares than “Hereditary,” if that’s even possible. The two-hour-and-20-minute runtime makes “Midsommar” one of the longer horror releases in recent memory, not quite hitting the 153 minutes of “Suspiria” but longer than the 116-minute “Us” from earlier this year.
“Midsommar” stars Florence Pugh and Jake Raynor as an American couple whose mental states and relationship unravel when they decide to vacation with their friends in Sweden. The group heads to a small village that is hosting a festival held once every 90 years, one that includes hallucinogenic drugs and disturbing pagan rituals. The supporting cast includes Will Poulter, William Jackson Harper,...
“Midsommar” stars Florence Pugh and Jake Raynor as an American couple whose mental states and relationship unravel when they decide to vacation with their friends in Sweden. The group heads to a small village that is hosting a festival held once every 90 years, one that includes hallucinogenic drugs and disturbing pagan rituals. The supporting cast includes Will Poulter, William Jackson Harper,...
- 6/4/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
HBO Europe has released the first-look teaser trailer for Lukas Moodysson’s upcoming TV comedy series “Gosta.” The highly-anticipated show marks the acclaimed Swedish filmmaker’s first foray into television and was HBO’s first commissioned drama series out of Scandinavia.
The eponymous Gosta (Vilhelm Blomgren) is a 28-year old child psychologist who gets his first job in a small rural town. He wants to be the kindest person in the world and help everyone he meets, but sometimes it goes better than others. Amy Deasismont and Mattias Silvell also star as Gosta’s girlfriend and father, respectively. The trailer opens and closes with the three leads on a car journey.
The show was written and directed by Moodysson, with the trailer’s comedic tone akin to titles like 2000’s “Together” and 2013’s “We Are the Best!” among the director’s feature work. The first four 30-minute episodes will debut...
The eponymous Gosta (Vilhelm Blomgren) is a 28-year old child psychologist who gets his first job in a small rural town. He wants to be the kindest person in the world and help everyone he meets, but sometimes it goes better than others. Amy Deasismont and Mattias Silvell also star as Gosta’s girlfriend and father, respectively. The trailer opens and closes with the three leads on a car journey.
The show was written and directed by Moodysson, with the trailer’s comedic tone akin to titles like 2000’s “Together” and 2013’s “We Are the Best!” among the director’s feature work. The first four 30-minute episodes will debut...
- 5/16/2019
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
"It only happens once every 90 years." If you've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Ari Aster's second feature-length film after he shocked audiences with Hereditary, then you'll be pleased to enter a surreal and unsettling village where sinister secrets lurk beneath the sunshine in A24's new trailer for Midsommar.
Written and directed by Ari Aster, Midsommar stars Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren,
Archie Madekwe, Ellora Torchia, and Will Poulter. A24 will unleash Midsommar in theaters on July 3rd.
Synopsis: "Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, a grieving Dani invites herself to join Christian and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a land of eternal...
Written and directed by Ari Aster, Midsommar stars Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren,
Archie Madekwe, Ellora Torchia, and Will Poulter. A24 will unleash Midsommar in theaters on July 3rd.
Synopsis: "Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, a grieving Dani invites herself to join Christian and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a land of eternal...
- 5/14/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Now with the new release date in the smack dab of mid-summer, Ari Aster’s Hereditary follow-up Midsommar has unveiled a new trailer courtesy of A24. While the first preview reveled in the vibrant terrifying imagery, this one adds more, but also expands our story as we see the beginnings of the trip and more about the characters, who attend a celebration turned terrifying.
Starring Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, and Will Poulter the film follows a young couple’s vacation to a Swedish village, where they discover the residents’ peculiar traditions and rituals. As one of the main characters carries pain from a recently deceased loved one, these rituals become cloaked in a sense of dread.
Also starring William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Archie Madekwe, and Ellora Torchia, see the new trailer and poster below.
Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship...
Starring Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, and Will Poulter the film follows a young couple’s vacation to a Swedish village, where they discover the residents’ peculiar traditions and rituals. As one of the main characters carries pain from a recently deceased loved one, these rituals become cloaked in a sense of dread.
Also starring William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Archie Madekwe, and Ellora Torchia, see the new trailer and poster below.
Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship...
- 5/14/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Ari Aster delivered a modern horror classic last year with “Hereditary,” and from the looks of it he could very well do it again this summer with the release of “Midsommar.” The sun-kissed psychological horror movie has been described by Aster as his version of a break-up movie, and that’s at least where the new official trailer from A24 starts. Rising indie stars Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor play a struggling couple who reluctantly take a summer trip together only for their relationship to derail because of a sinister cult.
The official synopsis from A24 reads: “A couple’s vacation to a Swedish village takes a sinister turn when the insular townspeople invite them into a series of rituals that render their pastoral paradise increasingly unnerving, in this dread-soaked and viscerally disquieting psychological thriller.”
Aster teased “Midsommar” earlier this year, telling fans, “It’s very macabre. But people shouldn’t go in expecting ‘Hereditary.
The official synopsis from A24 reads: “A couple’s vacation to a Swedish village takes a sinister turn when the insular townspeople invite them into a series of rituals that render their pastoral paradise increasingly unnerving, in this dread-soaked and viscerally disquieting psychological thriller.”
Aster teased “Midsommar” earlier this year, telling fans, “It’s very macabre. But people shouldn’t go in expecting ‘Hereditary.
- 5/14/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
A couple named Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) head to a Swedish town to visit a friend for a special retreat that becomes more sinister with each creepy breath in the new unsettling trailer for A24’s Midsommar. “Christian says you’ve got some special thing planned,” Dani asks their friend as they and a group of others arrive on what initially looks to be an idyllic wooded property.
“Yeah, it’s like a crazy nine-day festival,” the friend explains. “It only happens every 90 years.”
Directed by Ari Aster...
“Yeah, it’s like a crazy nine-day festival,” the friend explains. “It only happens every 90 years.”
Directed by Ari Aster...
- 3/5/2019
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
There’s nothing blatantly scary about the teaser announcement for A24 and Ari Aster’s “Midsommar” (embedded below), and yet the involvement of the “Hereditary” writer-director is enough to make the motion graphic feel incredibly terrifying. “Midsommar” will be Aster’s first directorial effort since “Hereditary” earned critical acclaim and terrified audiences last year. A24’s announcement confirms the film is still on course to be released in 2019.
As Aster describes it, the film is a slice of “Scandinavian folk horror” that centers around a couple who visit they friend’s rural hometown in Sweden. The couple is traveling to attend the town’s legendary mid-summer festival, but their trip devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Aster has also referred to the film as an “an apocalyptic breakup movie” where the “recent death of the main character’s parents casts a...
As Aster describes it, the film is a slice of “Scandinavian folk horror” that centers around a couple who visit they friend’s rural hometown in Sweden. The couple is traveling to attend the town’s legendary mid-summer festival, but their trip devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Aster has also referred to the film as an “an apocalyptic breakup movie” where the “recent death of the main character’s parents casts a...
- 2/26/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Hereditary was one hell of a terrifying and disturbing horror film. The director of that movie, Ari Aster, has teamed up with A24 for a new horror movie and we’ve now learned that it will be released in the summer of 2019.
The untitled horror movie is said to tell the story about a vacation that goes horribly and violently wrong. The movie stars Jack Reynor (Kin) and Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth) as “a couple that travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown for its fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.”
I imagine that the movie will at least be as disturbing as Hereditary. But who knows, maybe Aster will take it to an even more nightmarish level of insanity. When previously talking about the film to THR,...
The untitled horror movie is said to tell the story about a vacation that goes horribly and violently wrong. The movie stars Jack Reynor (Kin) and Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth) as “a couple that travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown for its fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.”
I imagine that the movie will at least be as disturbing as Hereditary. But who knows, maybe Aster will take it to an even more nightmarish level of insanity. When previously talking about the film to THR,...
- 10/25/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
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