I’m back on movie podcast Ribbon of Memes, talking about ‘Midsommar’
I join hosts RogerBW and Nick Marsh to talk about Ari Aster’s 2019 horror flick Midsommar.
Ari Aster
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This exasperating movie is so obnoxious it could be deliberately trolling us. Wants to have its ambiguous cake and eat it, too, smothered in a gloomy frosting. *extremely pinches nose in despair*
Midsommar movie review: välkommen to weird Ikea
It’s hard to escape the sense that Ari Aster is getting off on Florence Pugh sobbing and screaming as he fetishizes her terror and torment. And none of it is in the pursuit of any meaning or message.
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