Midsommar (Director’s Cut)
Scary Movies XII
August 16 - 21, 2019
American grad student Dani (Florence Pugh), grieving after a shocking loss, accompanies her boyfriend and his buddies on their vacation to a tight-knit commune in the sunny Swedish countryside, where an extravagant nine-day festival celebrating the summer solstice takes a dark turn.
Update: This screening is now sold out and standby only. A standby line will form at the Walter Reade Theater box office. Tickets may become available to the standby line on a first-come, first-served basis.
Q&A with Ari Aster
Scary Movies is excited to premiere the official, nearly three-hour director’s cut of the acclaimed sophomore feature from Ari Aster (Hereditary) in a special Saturday night screening. American grad student Dani (Florence Pugh), grieving after a shocking loss, accompanies her boyfriend and his buddies on their vacation to a tight-knit farming commune in the sunny Swedish countryside. They’ve timed their trip to participate in an extravagant nine-day festival celebrating the summer solstice, with hallucinogenic drugs in abundance and a Nordic sun that hardly seems to set, but things quickly take a dark turn in this singular, unflinching, utterly contemporary entry in the fish-out-of-water folk-horror canon. An A24 release.
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