Midsommar (2019) on Netflix
Dani is grieving after her sister killed their parents and herself. She joins her distant boyfriend Christian at a Swedish midsummer festival in the village where his friend Pelle grew up.
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Christian plans to travel to Sweden with his friends Mark and Josh and their Swedish friend Pelle, whose ancestral commune, the Hårga, holds a nine-day midsummer festival that is held once every ninety years. Josh wants material for a thesis on the festivities. Christian's girlfriend Dani is grieving after her sister Terri killed their parents and herself with carbon monoxide, and Christian, though distant, invites her along after an argument. At the commune the group meets Simon and Connie, a British couple brought by Pelle's commune-brother Ingemar. Ingemar offers psychedelic mushrooms, and Dani's trip turns into hallucinations of her dead family.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Midsommar (2019)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Ari Aster was approached by B-Reel executives Martin Karlqvist and Patrik Andersson to helm a slasher film set in Sweden, an idea he initially rejected. He devised a plot around two characters verging on a breakup and called the result a breakup movie dressed in the clothes of a folk horror film.
- The sex scene between Christian and Maja was filmed on the final day, with Isabelle Grill in her first feature role. Reynor felt male nudity was unusual for a horror film and said he advocated for as much full-frontal nudity as possible, feeling more vulnerable than he had anticipated.
- There was around a six-week debate over whether the film would be given an NC-17 rating, considered harmful to a film's box-office performance, or an R by the MPAA for its US release due to its graphic nudity; it was eventually given the R after cuts.
- Despite its Swedish setting, the majority of the film was shot in Hungary, primarily due to financial constraints, but also because Sweden limits daily film shoots to no longer than eight hours.
- Svensson said the mallet prop used for the senicide scene was a replica of one at a museum in Stockholm, and that the cliff-jumping was based on historic practices in Sweden.
