Ari Aster on Midsommar, Cathartic Endings, the Director's Cut, and His Favorite Films

so now we know she broke up with ari.

This film portrays some moments of my life, so is really cathartic

😎🙏💯

I thought I was the only one who thought the ending was a happy ending. At least for her. She finally can leave her horrible narcissistic boyfriend, she finds a new community, and her positive traits are celebrated

The dummy on her phone through this entire talk is infuriating. Go fucking home.

My favorite director of all time, and his career is not even 10 years old. Guys like this make me pumped for the future.

The thing about horror is often that a death or even excessive multiple deaths will happen for the shock value of the viewer and then the characters seem to move on very quickly. But films like these portray deaths with actual consequences for the plot and the mental states of the characters moving forward.

Ïchechepeïn

He’s such a cutie 😔

I love how right off the bat he mentions how important the score was to the ending. Bobby Krylic did a fantastic job!

I kind of sided with Christian ... when it was revealed she doesn't like sex.. i got an ick

Florence puig was perfect cuz she was so frumpy and sweaty as a guy I felt like I just wanted to get away from her too

i enjoyed ths

You can tell they didn’t understand the film at all … fym a happy ending?? lol

THE BLACK SUN

I can see some positive catharsis in Midsommar but the interview saying this for the new family in hereditary is utterly insane.

perhaps those who desecrate another's culture should be held accountable?

Awkward

Please please please keep making films!

interviewer is a putz

i remember getting broken up with when i was 19 and obviously at the time it felt like the end of the world, and on the evening of the day i was broken up with me and my best friend went to the cinema to see midsommar to try and make me feel better. i’ve never walked out of the cinema feeling more empty of emotions ever. masterful work mr aster

So where tf is the extended cut?

The score at the end made everything 100 times more disturbing!!!!!! Good job for taking your time with it!!!!

I wish he would direct Tom Cruises autobiography, "Billions of years. 1000s of dicks."

Hereditary is so haunting and very scary it stays with you for a very long time and Midsommar is scary and gorier than Hereditary but it's not uncomfortable scary like Hereditary.

I just found this out minutes ago Ari was born the same year as me 1986 in July and I was born in May which means he is two months younger than me no big deal but I did not know that until today.

The woman in the background of this interview… in the white dress… wholly disinterested, bored, and couldn’t give a shit, is a powerful metaphor.

Cannot wait to see what Ari Aster does next, love him (maybe too much lol). Side note- The interviewer thinks the movie’s ending was happy? What movie was he watching lol.

You have to have a disturbing mind to write these films.

After 2 films and his short films im pretty sure I’m a fan of this guy as much as I am M. Night… if not more. “Hereditary” left me feeling and thinking after it was over… any movie that has me thinking about it a day or two later is exactly what i want when i see a movie

Who is the gross person on the phone in the BG?

The real horror is that people think this movie has a happy ending.

too bad the girl RIGHT behind him was on her phone the whole time...

Ari Aster has ruined my life. Ive loved horror movies my entire existence since I was a toddler (don't judge my parents..) and now I will forever be disappointed in them after seeing his genius masterpieces.

I have never felt more uncomfortable watching a film as when I first watched Midsommar.

World becomes polluted with very negative things when people get into and inside these genres which are actually like modern cults. The Horror genre is like a weird cult that has detached itself from reality, basic goodness and common sense. The Horror cult is giving its members rewards for doing extremely damaging "trips" that basicly pollute human consciousness and in the worst case cause little traumas which make people subconsciously and hugely afraid of experiencing something that would really take them out of their dull and mundane life.

The only positive thing about this guy is that he is being pretty open and honest about the vomiting of his own anxiety and bad feelings through these movies on other people. I highly recommend avoiding this guys movies or watch them only as an example of someone getting storytelling and film art completely wrong.

Great art or great movies are never created with such intentions.

I would have asked him if the name midsommar was supposed to be a wink at a midsummer nights dream by Shakespeare- with the drug use and the humans dressed as animals and the hints of folklore/fairy mythology

who’s the shorty in the corner 😈

Stop celebrating him people.
The film was clearly satanic.

This guy wore the same thing for his interview the year earlier

Why can't he just spit it out, taking so long to explain the story. 🤨He's just like James Taylor and Johnny Depp. They can't just get to the point! 🥱Boring!

Ari Aster & Jordan Peele Co Directed movie for the people!

The Guy has chops
2 Major releases and they both deliver
He's been hinting that he's stepping away from Horror for the next few projects
I'm sure they will also contain that thing he's good at
I look forward to being a fan of his work.

Not sure where the happiness comes from from a lot of your comments. I never left the theater feeling happy nor feeling it was a happy ending. Not at all. I felt she was now trapped in this twisted world she did not fully understand.

Came here straight from watching Midsommar and the woman in the background with the facial ticks is freaking me out! She keeps raising her eyebrows and sticking her tongue out. She would exist in an ari aster interview…

The interviewer has problems with his head. Seems to me he is not very bright.

Very talented guy!!!!!