The easiest way to describe Misommar is to call it ‘a spectacle’.
In two-ish gory hours, audiences watch as a group of post-graduate Anthropology students travel to a Swedish commune in order to observe their summer solstice celebrations.
To say things go wrong is an understatement of epic proportions.
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The film’s official description reads as follows:
“Dani and Christian are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, a grieving Dani invites herself to join Christian and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village.
“What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a land of eternal sunlight takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that render the pastoral paradise increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing. From the visionary mind of Ari Aster comes a dread-soaked cinematic fairytale where a world of darkness unfolds in broad daylight.”