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'If it’s festivity and perpetual sunshine you want, you’ll find it at the Hårga commune in rural Sweden around the summer solstice; time it right, and you might even catch the resident pagans throwing their rarely held blockbuster midsummer festival. Unfortunately, a guest also runs the risk of being ritually immolated or turned into a straw-filled human ragdoll, as Americans Dani (Florence Pugh), her boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor) and Christian’s witless friends discover in Ari Aster’s sunlit folk horror Midsommar.
Though cruel images abound in Midsommar – a public geronticide makes for a particularly grisly spectacle – Aster’s film is, at heart, a tale of glorious renewal. Christian has only brought Dani along on his boys’ trip because he took pity on her following a family tragedy, but the commune has less of the hedonism that Christian wants and more of the spiritual restoration that his partner needs. Running the emotional gamut from first scene to last, Florence Pugh is sheer force as Dani, a broken young woman rediscovering herself as a queen.' British Film Institute

R18+ | High impact injury detail