Another great work from Ari Aster

Rating: 9/10 (22 November 2019)

I very much enjoyed the horrifying experience of Hereditary, and so I was quite excited to see this movie. Midsommar manages to feel like an entirely new story, although both concepts turn out to be similar (creepy cult-looking stuff). Going into the movie theater, I was expecting to get "kickked up" like Hereditary had previously done, but I was very pleasantly surprised. This movie had excellent character development, and the emphasis was really on the relationship between the two main characters, Christian and Dani. Even though I didn't walk out of the movie theater shaken and with a new point of view, it was really fun to watch and also had its fair share of creepy and unsettling moments. Once again, Ari Aster hides so many details throughout the movie and the foreshadowing is crazy, which makes it a really fun experience to try to notice all the "secrets". This movie was much more casual for me, and a good entertaining psychological horror. I would recommend, but beware, this movie is also quite long, and slow-paced, which might not please everyone. I personally really liked it, it was a much lighter storyline and the cinematography was brilliant in my opinion, conveys emotion really well.
Another favourite from Ari! A deeper look into unhealthy and dying relationship dynamics. If you think you're about to see a "Blumhouse" type of movie, this is not it, this is more of a drama. Nonetheless, still amazing to me.