A24 films has announced the surprise release this Friday of an extended Director’s Cut of Midsommar, the second film from Hereditary filmmaker Ari Aster and starring Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, and Will Poulter. Check out a trailer for the extended cut below…
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Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) 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.
The Director’s Cut of Midsommar will be released in select U.S. theaters this Friday, August 30th.