SPOILERS ONLY: REVIEWING MIDSOMMAR

WAIF MAGAZINE, Issue 13
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The Summer season calls for the good things in life; more parties! more travelling! hot weather! festivals! Sometimes, even drugs! This is the Swedish getaway writer-director Ari Aster creates for his sophomore feature, Midsommar. A year after the critically acclaimed release of Hereditary, we meet protagonist Dani, who is dealing with a now trademarked Aster family tragedy. She travels with her boyfriend, Christian, and his rowdy anthropology nerd-friends to experience the Midsommar Festival in Hårga, a rural Swedish commune. They dance, enjoy the weather, see some cliff-diving, and of course, watch their friends get killed off one by one.......