Midsommar - Il villaggio dei dannati

One of the year's strangest, most distressing, and most memorable films

For director Ari Aster, horror starts at home. It's those closest to us that can inflict the deepest wounds. In his debut film Hereditary, released last year to both great acclaim and some healthy dissent, he dealt with the terrors of the family unit, where guilt and resentment have as powerful a sway as love. Yet he did so with the help of all things macabre - witches, ghosts, and demons - and crafted tableaux straight out of a waking nightmare. His follow-up, Midsommar, serves up much of the same: it's a break-up movie wrapped up in pagan horror. [...]

di Clarisse Loughrey, articolo completo (5419 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Independent 4 luglio 2019