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This review was originally published last month.
We are republishing the piece as the film hits theaters this weekend.
Christian half-heartedly invites Dani, hoping that shell say no.
But Dani, having lost her family, doesnt have much else in her life.
As Dani, Pugh is amazingly vivid.
Her face is so wide and open that she seems to have nowhere to hide her emotions.
Everything about her is insistent.
Her intensity reminds me of Lili Taylors, but her voice is throatier, and she bendsMidsommartoward her.
(The film was actually shot in Hungary.)
Aster and the production designer, Henrik Svensson, have designed the Harga village from scratch.
From the start, runic murals and paintings have signaled the characters fates.
The names are symbolic: Dani Ardor is a woman denied love.
Christian, like Christianity itself, has become less empathetic in the modern age, more identified with self-gratification.
PerhapsMidsommardoesnt jell because its impulses are so bifurcated.
