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Midsommar is Ari Aster’s much-anticipated follow-up to his first film, Hereditary, which was an amazing success. Just like Peele, Aster had a lot of pressure to deliver another unbelievable story, and Midsommar is it. The story is about a grad student, Dani (Florence Pugh), her boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor), and two of his friends, who go to Sweden for a special festival that only takes place every 90 years, and, well, you can imagine what happens... While I’d say Midsommar is a horror film, just like Hereditary, and deals with some of the same themes of grief and family, visually it’s completely different, colorful and bright where Hereditary was dark and eerie. Aster has made another unsettling and emotional film, though it’s honestly worth seeing solely for how beautiful it is. If you can handle horror, you definitely need to see this.