Discombobulating

Rating: 8/10 (5 July 2019)

What facts can you trust? How do you know what you know?
Dani is a young woman whose sister dies by suicide after killing their parents. The young woman is naturally devastated. She herself is emotionally unstable. Meanwhile her boyfriend, Christian--with his friends' encoiuragement--has been looking for a way to dump her, but with this tragedy, he stays on. She badly needs understanding and compassion--she needs to feel hugged--but he is tentative.
Several months alter, the friends, who are students of anthropology, decide to attend a midsummer festival in a northern Swedish commune. Dani goes, too, to the consternation of the others.
Once they get near the commune, they trip on mushrooms, but Dani has a bad trip. In fact, the entire trip turns bad. The charming sight of people in white linen outfits dancing to ancient tunes is replaced with customs in turn strange, pagan, and bloody.
Most of the movie is from Dani's point of view, but how reliable is the mind of a depressed and grief stricken woman during and after a bad trip?
Pretty good movie. Hard to watch sometimes, but in all a good trip to the movies, not bad.