I KNOW RIGHT??? Watching his movies and shorts make think that I have no imagination, I would NEVER thinked the things I witnised and felt in Hereditary and Midsommar and I'm so excited of see how twisted his imagination can be.
WakeYourselfUp But we gotta remember, he might be planning on things other than horror as well. Which is fine ofc, but a bit of a bummer for us horror fans.
@callmecatalyst he has stated his next movie is going to be an abusrdist piece, we don't know if their will be horror elements yet, but he has quoted he wants too make a 4hr nightmare comedy so fingers crossed :D No matter what he does ill always be at his next film though!
We are lucky enough to see a legendary director being "born". We haven't yet noticed how lucky we are. It's like we are seeing a young Kubrick doing his first steps. I'm so excited to follow this guy's career!
As Above So Below don’t get ahead of yourself lol he kinda ran out of ideas and rehashed hereditary again. That should worry you. Let’s see if he has something new next time right?
@@stasis7127 They are both nihilistic yes. In one a whole family murders itself and the son becomes a demon. In the second the whole group is murdered and in the end she murders her own boyfriend. Yea that's perfect nihilism. Explain to me why it isn't instead of your non-argument.
probably not attendant just a production crew member sitting there...damn, it has to be an emergency to be on your phone and not listening this amazing director ....
Hes still working on the extended cut, he said it wont have the extra hour and a half but will at least have 30 minutes of extra footage. They cut a really big fight between Christian and Dani during the middle of the movie where Dani actually fights back with Christian fir the first time. I also heard that the film was NC-17 for about 6 weeks and one of the ways to drop it to a R rating was to get rid of Christian having a full on erection during the sex scene, and that actor actually wanted as much frontal nudity of him as possible. I'm going to see it for the 2nd time tonight. I saw it last night by myself and there was only 2 young couples sitting a few rows behind me. And I could hear the girlfriends getting so upset by the cliff jump part and the boyfriends trying to calm and quiet them down. Lol. I would love to see this movie with a packed theater.
@@Paperflower. the actor that played Christian wanted to go all out and show as much of him being naked as possible. He said you always see the girls get naked in movies but never the guys. So he wanted to expose as much of himself as possible. He talks about that sex scene for about 15 minutes in a interview. Search TH-cam: (actors nane) sex scene midsommar, I'm sure you will find the video and he can explain what he wanted to do a lot better than I can.
Me too. Thank you, so much, for your depiction/acknowledgement of the unspeakable nature of extreme grief- the life-changing pain, and isolating undeserved shame that drives us to endure it alone, in hiding...
@@bullsheet88 I've been staring at my laptop for the past minute or so, confounded by my seeming inability to explain how, exactly... my thoughts put into words all sound obvious and trite.... I'm realizing that's because these films both had a genuinely profound effect on me, and my grieving, and I just can't distill that experience into a youtube comment, I love these movies too much for the oversimplification that would require.
Aster, and most of A24 directors, are a shining light and inspiration for modern, existential and psychological horror. Popcorn horror is fine but this is the real stuff that leaves you feeling empty and floored.
My only notable theater moment is during Ad Astra during the climactic ending between the two characters, there was a moment of silence between two Hans Zimmer horns and the whole room resonated with a dude's snoring.
Man...Midsommar litterally haunts me...the movie completely moved me, going out of the theater I felt a mix of sadness, fullfilment and...happiness ? The movie is so vast, so many things to see on the screen (the walls, the different characters in the background), you really identify to what Dani is going through. We litterally are witnessing masterpieces and future classic movies from this genius. Hereditary was more "horrific" in a way because it felt more "classic" in the way Ari was using horror but damn...Midsommar really moved me guys, am I the only one ?...
How can anyone sit and text the entire time this amazing interview is going on? She obviously has no clue who she is (or isn’t) listening to. Show some damn respect!
@@jesselee2549 One thing is the indifference she seems to show the whole time but c'mon, you have to call her "bitch" and judge her by her looks? Tinder? :(
First Hereditary and now Midsommar. This man has done it again with Midsommar. It was brilliant, it was horrifying and it was terrifying. I didn’t like it quite as much as Hereditary but, it is still amongst one of my favorite modern day horrors to date. I recommend you all to get to a theater near by and watch this one with an audience.
Girl behind Ari was totally dragged along by a friend or something. LOVE his take on the ending of A.I. Didn't really predict he'd be such a fan but I think it makes perfect sense now.
There is catharsis in closing the book on a relationship that has resulted in pain and regret. Midsommar does this from a woman’s perspective, and the brilliant Nocturnal Animals does this from a man’s perspective.
@@marceloaguirree No. It's the character's perspective. Saying that it's a male perspective just because a man wrote the screenplay basically denies his capacity for empathy.
@@MrJamesC I'm not denying his capacity of empathy. And I'm not saying he didn't do a good job in doing it he did an amazing job. Bo burnham made also a great film of a teenage girl. I'm just saying it's still a male who wrote it.
Ari Aster doesn't realize how prophetic he is through this film. I left feeling so many different emotions, the darkness, the codependency, the justice, and the grief. There was so much historical context mixed and matched, he's so humble, but Aster knows he's a genius. Brilliant writing and brilliant film making. The actors were also genius and really transformed into their characters. I feel like Aster's room for creative intuition as really made this film what it is... I feel like he tapped into something beyond us, he entered the midsummer nights dream. The spirits are dancing around him and he might not even know it. If Aster ever tries to write a film and puts the effort it will not be the same. This can literally be picked apart using new criticism, it was so real, hopefully, literary critics get a hold of this film and start a dissertation on it LOL.
I watched so many other interviews of him but this is the only one where he looks comfortable and understood (by the audience and the interviewer). thank you for uploading this.
It´s so weird, my boyfriend broke up with me ( 3 days ago) , I decided to look for a horror movie to distract myself, Midsommar jumped into my eye out of nowhere... I´m so in love with it, I couldnt believe while watching.
Hereditary and Midsommar are INCREDIBLE cinematic experiences, I do not have social medias other than YT, so, congratulations to Ari Aster, he has laid his name on Cinema History already, and keep it up, man!
me either and I've noticed the people that don't like it have terrible taste in movies and don't have an open mind while watching this movie as they're used to the shitty typical horror movies with jump scares
I think it was the stock college kid characters that cheapened it and made it feel like art school Eli Roth. And It was a script for hire situation, payed for by a tourism company.
L B he was literally hired to write it by a Swedish tourism corporation who already dictated the premise of the film. It’s stock characters and he did his best but it’s not original or inspired. I think he’s a great director but this will be looked down upon in his filmography in the future.
Conner O'Neill he’s spoken multiple times about the inspiration for the screenplay and the idea and how hard him and his team worked on every little detail in the movie, and even if that’s true you can’t honestly say that’s why people don’t like the movie. half of the people saying they don’t like it say it’s because it’s just like hereditary which makes absolutely no sense, and the other half are just calling him untalented, which is the opposite of true
I've just discovered Michael Koresky and I really like his way of interviwing. He is not afraid of exposing what he actually thinks and, at the same time, he is polite; he asks good and deep questions... I'm happy Good interview👌🏻👌🏻
Same! His interviewing style is really really reminiscent of Terri gross from fresh air. Listens. Let's the guest sit in their questions. Really digs into the work too.
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
Happy? She just killed her boyfriend for being neglectful toward her and is about to spend the rest of her life in a phony extended family obsessed with morbid traditions and inbreeding... In what way is this ending supposed to be happy?
@@Moondog1954 To be fair, the movie itself seemed to imply that the ending was far from positive. In the last shot, her smile was tense, her gaze aloof and lost, and the music swelled in that Mulholland Drive-esque, eerily peaceful way.
Jordan Peele over the top-praised this movie, without even having the music on it - as an early cut. And the music, I felt, is a huge asset to Midsommar
Here in 2024. I’m a new fan of Ari and A24 Studios. And this is the first time I’ve seen/heard him and he is EXACTLY how I imagined him. Super nerdy, long pauses when he speaks, rolls words over in his head, and that little word fumble stumble every once in a while lol. He’s so fantastic in every way I love him 😅❤
Really interesting how he said Hereditary and Midsommar were wrote back to back and how they spilled into each other. As the “similarities” in the reviews I’ve seen so far have been a criticism (Which is beyond me). He’s completely aware of the similarity (now) so I’m very interested to see what emotions he’s going to dredge up and discover. Also - such a chilled and humble dude.
got so pumped when this morning when I saw this pop up in my feed. I've seen their interview with Aster on Hereditary last year probably 3-4 times, and I was crossing my fingers they would bring him back for Midsommar!
Saaaaaame, I’ve been studying Ari’s interviews and try to get exactly how he creates these beautiful movies I’m always up to date with his stuff so I was happy as fuck when I saw this on TH-cam.
"I am your mother who forced you to take your sister to an age-inappropriate party that she didn't even want to go, didn't send her epi pen and then blamed you when she died as a result". I felt that moment, especially since my own mother once tried to kill me by not getting me to medical attention when I was having an allergic reaction to some Christmas candy.
Yes, it's a happy ending. Dani's wishes come true. She has a supportive familie now, where she is the queen. Her boyfriend is deadly punished for not understanding her. It's the total narcistic fullfilling. That's why she accept to decend in insanity. As a adult we should fear the fullfilment of our (childish) wishes.
This is not a happy ending and that’s what the movie tricks you into believing from the start through Dani’s perspective. It starts with Dani being the most isolated and vulnerable a person can be, which is what cults prey upon. They then shower their recruits with love, gaslight them and exhaust them until they can only follow the movement. That’s why the movie follows the pattern of the four seasons, from winter which Dani at home who is alone in the world, to a summer too bright where you can hardly see the details because of the blinding light. The whole movie lulls you into a sense of false security as it happens in an open and ever sunny environment as opposed to the more classics horror scenarios, but the horror is there and even more dangerous because you decide to willingly brush it off. It’s how fascism works and the movie has many references to it. It appeals to your sense of community, makes you feel like only one specific group (all white and blonds, you see where I’m going) can help you feel like you belong and for that, you are willing to close your eyes on the ugly side: murders, collective suicides and sexual abuse (Christian scene).
If this is a happy ending, so is Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The final girl escapes and Leatherface is finally free from this family's stranglehold of this life. He is free at last as noted by this chainsaw dance at the end.
I don't think I've experienced a film that made me feel physically sick quite like this movie. Combining the anxiety Dani feels constantly and the gore had me constantly on edge.
I saw this movie right after I got out of a deep depression and my agoraphobia was finally leaving. At the end, I was so happy. I didn't feel sick or weird at all...but I think because where I was mentally.
This wave of contemporary horror is amazing, and ari will be know as a huge influencer on this genra. Aronofsky's mother, was an incredible peace of art in my opinion, and one of my top 5 of all time, but it didn't get enough recognition, What ari excels in, is using his excellent format of story telling while using the most subtle and impressive editing and sound design, Creating two consecutive masterpieces, that are different enough yet unmistakably came from the same source
Fight Club was the first movie that ever made me feel disgusted by the time the ending rolls up. It's my fav movie ever, and it honestly changed me and now I only enjoy movies with endings like that and now Ari might be one of my favorite directors ever and we've only seen 2. Wtf. More pls
He is a huge Bergman fan. I guarantee that his next file will be a melodrama and it will haunt all of us until we die. I cannot wait. Midsommar is the best film since There Will Be Blood; Hereditary is a close second.
IKR? Romero's dead. Craven's dead. Carpenter's way past seventy. I expect that Ari Aster, Jordan Peele and Guillermo del Toro are set to be the new holy trinity of horror directors. Really, Mr Peele, lay some more of that social horror on me because right now society is the most horrifying thing there is and I just said that in a comment thread of an interview with Ari Aster.
*Spoilers for Hereditary and Midsommar* Both Hereditary and Midsommar had happy endings *for the cult families*, while many of the characters, the *individuals*, were sacrificed. Both movies are about individuals being transformed into cult family members, while the rest of the characters serve that goal, wittingly or otherwise. Hereditary is the much stronger movie, in part because the mythology of the demon allows for a rich justification of the events of the film. There's a certain lack of justification in Midsommar - for example, the commune has plenty of contact with the outside world, including technology produced there, yet the *ideology* of the outside world is completely rejected. What happens in the real world is that cultures are "corrupted* through contact with other cultures - they don't retain their distinct form. In Hereditary, the cultists are never *separate* from the outside world - the culture of the cult is merely *on top of*, or in addition to, their identities as Americans, or Husbands, etc. In other words - WHY are the cultists doing what they are doing in Midsommar? Besides the explanation of "it's just our way" and some degree of anti-modernism there has to be the understanding among the cultists that torture and murder is part of a greater good. So take the "suicide at age 72". This makes more sense in a pre-modern world, when the lack of medical science meant that old people *indeed did* often lead very painful lives. But again, this commune has plenty of contact with the outside modern world, and can just send their 72-year-olds to a nursing home, or just wait until they actually need to be sent there rather than follow "Nature's mathematics". The cult in Hereditary feels much more logical and is much more believable as a result. I just didn't believe that Midsommar's cult had been around for thousands of years. They felt like Swedes who had had enough of the modern world and were trying something new.
@@briankoontz1 honestly, having grown up in a cult, the hypocrisy and the nonsensical part of the cults reasoning stays pretty true to actual cults. That said, hereditary was the stronger film in my opinion as well
@@briankoontz1 the cult in Midsommar to me has more of a feel of having gone to observing that this seemed to be the natural cycles of a person's lifetime and then trying to force them onto a timetable. That never ends well.
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.
The ending of the movie is awesome, I felt a warm and fuzzy feeling first viewing even though I knew narratively it was bad. Then I thought about it in terms of how I interpreted the symbolism and metaphors and I became convinced it was a happy ending. Now Ari says it was meant to "feel" like a happy ending and now I feel like I have to watch it again.
I found the last stretch of the movie hilariously funny, and kind of joyous in the most counterintuitive way. I don't think I've seen a film do that before - is it still a horror movie if the horrific elements are not trying to inspire, well, horror? And if not what even is it?
@@timk6181 idk man even though they may not be trying to inspire horror, thinking about what is actually happening on screen makes me still feel horrible. Especially the sex scene. When she was singing and he starting going faster i laughed, but I still felt gross and uncomfortable.
@@timk6181 Your comment could also be said about movies like Evil Dead 2 and American Werewolf In London as well. Most horror movies aren't always trying to horrify you, they're more just putting you in the shoes of horrific people or in a horrific setting. Then making you feel different emotions within them.
@@gingram2 the sex scene to me was uncomfortable, weird, and for a moment with the woman singing and staring at Christian, almost wholesome. Then the old woman pushing on his ass cheeks and just the huge wtf look he has the whole time made me laugh as well. I loved thst this movie had me feeling multiple things from upon leaving the theatre and making it home. Like Hereditary, it is a film you can sit on and ponder for some time.
I have to say I never did find it a happy ending, as Dani is broken and alone with an entire village of people who have secretly been manipulating her since she arrived, and in the case of Pelle, even before. And she has no way out. When they said that this was just the BEGINNING of the celebrations I even thought that they will end with her sacrifice.
For me this movie was mainly interesting in a way of confrontation now days and rational and humane approach to the death, life, sex, relationship VS archaic rural ancient culture that is dead. But suddenly come to life. TH-cam with funny meme videos VS the world where nature and reality with death , birth and celebration of natures changes is the real life. Virtuality of now days values VS others people reality - both parts are insane. But it becomes quite normal if people believe it as normality and live it day by day. And psychedelics is like a bridge in the movie that allows audience to look at cults life as normal everyday routine. And if not drastically abnornal emitions and faces of the villagers we could see that its just other culture, nothing more. They different from us but they are also people that has a right to exist in the way they want to. At least they are historically deffinatly existed in a way that was closely shown. That was interesting for me. Sorry for my english, its not native for me. Hello from Russia. Thank you for your movies and great interview.
OMG A.I. is my favorite tooooo!!! That's crazy because no one I know even likes it and most didn't even make it to the end. It always makes me cry like a wild banshee. Omg
I took a 4 day tolerance break on weed and watched this after smoking and it changed my view on the movie compared to when I watched it sober. I can't imagine watching this on psychedelics
Ari is cute as hell and so nice and respectful for someone who comes up with such messed up stuff. Hereditary affected me so much & I'll be looking forward to anything he does in the future. Want to rewatch it but I'll have to work up the courage first lol
Ari Aster is, without question, a terrific director and easily one of the most exciting emerging talents in the film industry. That said, I do tire of these sorts of annoying Q & As in which the director is asked to to psychologically regurgitate their processes and explain how they felt and what they meant while going through the emotional process of making a film. In effect, Aster's being asked to do the audience's job. Please. I'd much rather hear Aster talk about the ideas and influences that inform his thinking about film-making itself. Michael Koresky is a dull, plodding interviewer who seems incapable of asking an interesting question, instead insisting on rehashing the emotional impact of film plot points. He completely misses the boat on the film's big ideas.
I think he wrote that as a way to keep the relationship stuck because if the suicide scene didn’t happen than Christian would have left her. And I think he needed a way to explain how he was maybe stuck in his. But that’s just my interpretation.
Two things: 1. I’m familiar with cognitive dissonance, but the ending is so disturbing because it creates emotional dissonance. It’s a horrific ending for everyone, including Dani, but at the same time it felt like a happy ending for Dani. That’s why this movie sticks with me. 2. The chick in the shot behind Ari Aster needs to get the fuck off her phone.
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imagine breaking up with ari aster and then he goes and writes midsommar
When you think of it as purely a break up movie it really is legendary
I saw it with an ex girlfriend and it was almost like therapy
He’s the Adele of Horror 😬😆
No no the Taylor swift of horror
The Ariana Grande of horror
"I have like 10 screenplays lying around"
bruh
I KNOW RIGHT??? Watching his movies and shorts make think that I have no imagination, I would NEVER thinked the things I witnised and felt in Hereditary and Midsommar and I'm so excited of see how twisted his imagination can be.
Knowing that he’s barely even started is a gift for us horror fans. We’re in for some tasty treats.
WakeYourselfUp But we gotta remember, he might be planning on things other than horror as well. Which is fine ofc, but a bit of a bummer for us horror fans.
@callmecatalyst he has stated his next movie is going to be an abusrdist piece, we don't know if their will be horror elements yet, but he has quoted he wants too make a 4hr nightmare comedy so fingers crossed :D No matter what he does ill always be at his next film though!
That made me SO happy when he said that. Inside I was like “MAKE THEM MAKE THEM MAKE THEM” 😂
We are lucky enough to see a legendary director being "born". We haven't yet noticed how lucky we are. It's like we are seeing a young Kubrick doing his first steps. I'm so excited to follow this guy's career!
As Above So Below don’t get ahead of yourself lol he kinda ran out of ideas and rehashed hereditary again. That should worry you. Let’s see if he has something new next time right?
I feel the same, very exciting. Disagree with this Paul dude but he's right in that we should wait for what comes next!
@@stasis7127 something NEW lol not rehashed family drama nihilism
@@Moondog1954 Neither of these films was nihilistic, get a dictionary.
@@stasis7127 They are both nihilistic yes. In one a whole family murders itself and the son becomes a demon. In the second the whole group is murdered and in the end she murders her own boyfriend. Yea that's perfect nihilism. Explain to me why it isn't instead of your non-argument.
"There's plenty left. I'm just dipping my toe in the pool of despair." I've never been more happy to hear someone say something so awful.
Imagine being on your phone while Ari Aster is talking
So happy other people also picked up on this.
I felt the disrespect 🤬 I would have loved to be there 😔
Why is she even there?!!! No attention span.
probably not attendant just a production crew member sitting there...damn, it has to be an emergency to be on your phone and not listening this amazing director ....
THANK YOU! I was screaming at the screen. Ugh. If I had the opportunity to hear him speak in person, I’d be on the edge of my seat. How rude.
I honestly would watch the four hour cut of this film 😱
Hes still working on the extended cut, he said it wont have the extra hour and a half but will at least have 30 minutes of extra footage. They cut a really big fight between Christian and Dani during the middle of the movie where Dani actually fights back with Christian fir the first time. I also heard that the film was NC-17 for about 6 weeks and one of the ways to drop it to a R rating was to get rid of Christian having a full on erection during the sex scene, and that actor actually wanted as much frontal nudity of him as possible. I'm going to see it for the 2nd time tonight. I saw it last night by myself and there was only 2 young couples sitting a few rows behind me. And I could hear the girlfriends getting so upset by the cliff jump part and the boyfriends trying to calm and quiet them down. Lol. I would love to see this movie with a packed theater.
@@lilchadaldrich he wanted as much frontal nudity???
@@Paperflower. the actor that played Christian wanted to go all out and show as much of him being naked as possible. He said you always see the girls get naked in movies but never the guys. So he wanted to expose as much of himself as possible.
He talks about that sex scene for about 15 minutes in a interview. Search TH-cam: (actors nane) sex scene midsommar, I'm sure you will find the video and he can explain what he wanted to do a lot better than I can.
Oh god! Lol! More power to you...
@Jerom Of course! are you kidding me? I want to watch that!
Ari aster should write and direct an episode of black mirror.. I think he would do it justice
Absolutely. He could bring it back to it's former glory.
Black Mirror is shite compared to Ari’s work, imo
Jagd Töpfer Exactly, that’s why I think ari would make it so much better
YES!!!
Leave Black Mirror to the dogs, Ari Aster should write and direct more of his own movies
I am a widow, and your films have helped me deal with my grief thank you.
Me too. Thank you, so much, for your depiction/acknowledgement of the unspeakable nature of extreme grief- the life-changing pain, and isolating undeserved shame that drives us to endure it alone, in hiding...
How? Im just curious
@@bullsheet88 I've been staring at my laptop for the past minute or so, confounded by my seeming inability to explain how, exactly... my thoughts put into words all sound obvious and trite.... I'm realizing that's because these films both had a genuinely profound effect on me, and my grieving, and I just can't distill that experience into a youtube comment, I love these movies too much for the oversimplification that would require.
I will say this- awful, bare, raw grief, personified genuinely, is very rare in Hollywood...
...But it's so much more than that
Aster, and most of A24 directors, are a shining light and inspiration for modern, existential and psychological horror. Popcorn horror is fine but this is the real stuff that leaves you feeling empty and floored.
You can say that again!
Totally agree
Agreed
Spot on
Most A24 films are total trash.
I paused this video to go watch 45 years. Now I'm back, sobbing. Let's continue.
my favorite thing was that at the end of seeing this movie, one person in the audience clapped. one person, everyone else was confused. love that.
Everyone clapped. I laughed.
I thought about clapping but I restrained myself
thats insane! the exact same thing happened when i saw the film yesterday
My only notable theater moment is during Ad Astra during the climactic ending between the two characters, there was a moment of silence between two Hans Zimmer horns and the whole room resonated with a dude's snoring.
Man...Midsommar litterally haunts me...the movie completely moved me, going out of the theater I felt a mix of sadness, fullfilment and...happiness ? The movie is so vast, so many things to see on the screen (the walls, the different characters in the background), you really identify to what Dani is going through. We litterally are witnessing masterpieces and future classic movies from this genius. Hereditary was more "horrific" in a way because it felt more "classic" in the way Ari was using horror but damn...Midsommar really moved me guys, am I the only one ?...
GabrielGunslinger completely agree.
same
fully agree, I felt like if I've just witnessed my favourite film of all time
SAME!
I'd felt the same if there wasn't so much time dedicated to characters which I wasn't invested in (aka anyone other than Dani), dilutes it to a 4/5.
Ari Aster ruined my life by turning me into a horror film convert :)
bobtheman1 welcome to the cult lol
Yeah dude.
Fr I used to think that horror fans were weird creeps but look where I am now lmao
Kinda setting you up to be disappointed!
@@_mel_9953 same...
He’s wearing the same outfit he was wearing last year during the same interview aww 🤗
Luis Martinez IM SCREAMING. I didn’t realize that lmfaoooooooo
I noticed that lol
Maaaaaan i thought i was trippin i saw tje thumbnail like " i saw this before but why is it labeled midsommar"
Proof that he has been working straight through Hereditary to now
Nobody:
Me: looking for someone to point this out in the comments
Extended cut of Hereditary please sir.
Preferably one with that rumored ending where Peter stabs his eyes out.
There’s a lot of deleted scenes online if you haven’t seen them already
He's confirmed it's coming, 30 mins longer
@@esyphillis101 Yes I need to see this!
@@freddiefrezza details?
How can anyone sit and text the entire time this amazing interview is going on? She obviously has no clue who she is (or isn’t) listening to. Show some damn respect!
that really irritated me as well
Justin Cox what if she was going through a break up through text
@@jesselee2549 One thing is the indifference she seems to show the whole time but c'mon, you have to call her "bitch" and judge her by her looks? Tinder? :(
Gabriel M Notes? I don’t think she even glanced at Ari throughout this whole interview
@@ammo76534 she hasn't watched the movie too
First Hereditary and now Midsommar.
This man has done it again with Midsommar. It was brilliant, it was horrifying and it was terrifying. I didn’t like it quite as much as Hereditary but, it is still amongst one of my favorite modern day horrors to date. I recommend you all to get to a theater near by and watch this one with an audience.
I can't wait for his next film, Disappointment Boulevard with Joaquin Phoenix!!!
The girl sitting behind him is the girl he broke up with
:D
That's more horrifying than his films.
I hate that I LOVE you for telling us this! But wow. I do.
Although, given his brilliantly controlled and immersive approach to everything, her actions are most likely staged per his direction.
@@Julietly76 youre welcome juliet, and given his brilliance im convinced you are on point for sure.
Girl behind Ari was totally dragged along by a friend or something. LOVE his take on the ending of A.I. Didn't really predict he'd be such a fan but I think it makes perfect sense now.
Yeah, Spielberg is for lame-o-construct-o's. Ari is a real genius. He changed my life. Jurassic Park sucks.
@@BruceWayne-zj1kw Aster mentinoed you in this
too bad he spoiled it, like with the other movie he talked about, but at least he acknowledged it.
@@BruceWayne-zj1kw tf that has anything to do with spielberg and his movies, obviously a different genre! Get a life u miserable pathetic 🤡.
One of many reasons as to why Ari Aster if my fav director is simply because he isn’t afraid to make obnoxiously disturbing films
There is catharsis in closing the book on a relationship that has resulted in pain and regret. Midsommar does this from a woman’s perspective, and the brilliant Nocturnal Animals does this from a man’s perspective.
Well tecnically both perspectives are male. But yeah. I liked nocturnal animals way more
@@marceloaguirree No. It's the character's perspective. Saying that it's a male perspective just because a man wrote the screenplay basically denies his capacity for empathy.
@@MrJamesC I'm not denying his capacity of empathy. And I'm not saying he didn't do a good job in doing it he did an amazing job. Bo burnham made also a great film of a teenage girl. I'm just saying it's still a male who wrote it.
@@marceloaguirree But it's technically not a male perspective, at least not necessarily
I want the 4 hour cut! I think he's brilliant. Hereditary and Midsommar stand out from other "horror" movies in such a profound way 👏
Ari Aster doesn't realize how prophetic he is through this film. I left feeling so many different emotions, the darkness, the codependency, the justice, and the grief. There was so much historical context mixed and matched, he's so humble, but Aster knows he's a genius. Brilliant writing and brilliant film making. The actors were also genius and really transformed into their characters. I feel like Aster's room for creative intuition as really made this film what it is... I feel like he tapped into something beyond us, he entered the midsummer nights dream. The spirits are dancing around him and he might not even know it. If Aster ever tries to write a film and puts the effort it will not be the same. This can literally be picked apart using new criticism, it was so real, hopefully, literary critics get a hold of this film and start a dissertation on it LOL.
I watched so many other interviews of him but this is the only one where he looks comfortable and understood (by the audience and the interviewer). thank you for uploading this.
He kept apologizing for his tangents but every single one was so delightful and fascinating.
a good movie to watch after a break up
A good movie to watch just BEFORE a break up.
It´s so weird, my boyfriend broke up with me ( 3 days ago) , I decided to look for a horror movie to distract myself, Midsommar jumped into my eye out of nowhere... I´m so in love with it, I couldnt believe while watching.
exactly
Hereditary and Midsommar are INCREDIBLE cinematic experiences, I do not have social medias other than YT, so, congratulations to Ari Aster, he has laid his name on Cinema History already, and keep it up, man!
I don’t understand the negative reviews for this film. Another brilliant film in my eyes.
me either and I've noticed the people that don't like it have terrible taste in movies and don't have an open mind while watching this movie as they're used to the shitty typical horror movies with jump scares
I think it was the stock college kid characters that cheapened it and made it feel like art school Eli Roth. And It was a script for hire situation, payed for by a tourism company.
L B he was literally hired to write it by a Swedish tourism corporation who already dictated the premise of the film. It’s stock characters and he did his best but it’s not original or inspired. I think he’s a great director but this will be looked down upon in his filmography in the future.
Conner O'Neill he’s spoken multiple times about the inspiration for the screenplay and the idea and how hard him and his team worked on every little detail in the movie, and even if that’s true you can’t honestly say that’s why people don’t like the movie. half of the people saying they don’t like it say it’s because it’s just like hereditary which makes absolutely no sense, and the other half are just calling him untalented, which is the opposite of true
@@lb7661 If I don't like the movie I'm an idiot? That sounds like something an idiot would say :/
what a genuinely humble, thoughtful, generous interviewee.
I've just discovered Michael Koresky and I really like his way of interviwing. He is not afraid of exposing what he actually thinks and, at the same time, he is polite; he asks good and deep questions... I'm happy Good interview👌🏻👌🏻
Same! His interviewing style is really really reminiscent of Terri gross from fresh air. Listens. Let's the guest sit in their questions. Really digs into the work too.
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
It's a happy ending. Joyous... In the most demented, maniacal way.
JoeEyeMonster well said
@@Blue_Brawler :D
Bizarre lol
Happy?
She just killed her boyfriend for being neglectful toward her and is about to spend the rest of her life in a phony extended family obsessed with morbid traditions and inbreeding...
In what way is this ending supposed to be happy?
@@Moondog1954 To be fair, the movie itself seemed to imply that the ending was far from positive.
In the last shot, her smile was tense, her gaze aloof and lost, and the music swelled in that Mulholland Drive-esque, eerily peaceful way.
This movie is brilliant. I really hope they release the director's cut on Blu ray.
Just watched an interview of Robert Eggers and now this. The personality contrast of the 2 most talented horror movie directors today is intriguing.
I really like the first question - "I think this might be a happy ending...and I'm curious what your response is to that"
This man is an actual genius
I was thinking the same thing.
Jordan Peele over the top-praised this movie, without even having the music on it - as an early cut.
And the music, I felt, is a huge asset to Midsommar
It's more raw and real without the music that's why its scarier same with midsommar.
wow I’d say this is my favorite interview for ari that I’ve seen. Great questions, I loved listening to these guys talk
Listening to him talk about 45 Years makes me want to hug him so much
Here in 2024. I’m a new fan of Ari and A24 Studios. And this is the first time I’ve seen/heard him and he is EXACTLY how I imagined him. Super nerdy, long pauses when he speaks, rolls words over in his head, and that little word fumble stumble every once in a while lol. He’s so fantastic in every way I love him 😅❤
You should check out Novum channel's analysis of Hereditary and Midsommer.
Really interesting how he said Hereditary and Midsommar were wrote back to back and how they spilled into each other.
As the “similarities” in the reviews I’ve seen so far have been a criticism (Which is beyond me).
He’s completely aware of the similarity (now) so I’m very interested to see what emotions he’s going to dredge up and discover.
Also - such a chilled and humble dude.
I wish I could get inside Ari's brain and dig around in there. He's a freaking brilliant genius. The master of cinematics.
got so pumped when this morning when I saw this pop up in my feed. I've seen their interview with Aster on Hereditary last year probably 3-4 times, and I was crossing my fingers they would bring him back for Midsommar!
Me too! I watched that Hereditary interview many times and when I saw this pop up I was beaming.
Saaaaaame, I’ve been studying Ari’s interviews and try to get exactly how he creates these beautiful movies I’m always up to date with his stuff so I was happy as fuck when I saw this on TH-cam.
@@pwan280 same!
The Shining is very brightly lit on the whole...
i just want to give ari aster a big hug
i could listen to his voice for hours, it’s so therapeutic
I love hearing creaky voiced dorks stammer their way through explaining themselves.
eye have such a crush on him. brilliant shy sicko. eye can't wait to see what else he creates.
Selena Parsley I*
Look at the girl in the background. Completely not present. So depressing.
Justin Bliven one of those hereditary cult leaders I think
Far too common. :(
Justin Bliven, It’s annoying that she is doing that because I would and probably others would too, give anything to be there.
right? so unfortunate
perhaps an employee? I noticed that she didn't raise her hand when Ari asked who'd seen the film
Is it weird that I want him to be the director of any possible future live action adaptation of Ito Junji manga?
@Jed White lmao
THIS
@Stevie Ray Klon same 🤣
JUNJI ITOOOO 🖤🖤🖤💀💀💀
I keep going back to that scene from hereditary : " I am your mother " . It reminds me of my own mother and I break down every time.
"I am your mother who forced you to take your sister to an age-inappropriate party that she didn't even want to go, didn't send her epi pen and then blamed you when she died as a result". I felt that moment, especially since my own mother once tried to kill me by not getting me to medical attention when I was having an allergic reaction to some Christmas candy.
@@kalibhakta8640 “tried to kill me”?
We have to say that if it wasn't for that girl who broke up with Ari, we wouldn't have Midsommar
Towards the end I did feel a bit of sympathy for Christian Ari has become an inspiration for me
I have a lot of respect for this interviewer's awareness of Ari's personal takes during this.
The score at the end made everything 100 times more disturbing!!!!!! Good job for taking your time with it!!!!
This man is a *GENIUS.*
Yes, it's a happy ending. Dani's wishes come true. She has a supportive familie now, where she is the queen. Her boyfriend is deadly punished for not understanding her. It's the total narcistic fullfilling. That's why she accept to decend in insanity. As a adult we should fear the fullfilment of our (childish) wishes.
Ah yes, _familie_
This is not a happy ending and that’s what the movie tricks you into believing from the start through Dani’s perspective. It starts with Dani being the most isolated and vulnerable a person can be, which is what cults prey upon. They then shower their recruits with love, gaslight them and exhaust them until they can only follow the movement. That’s why the movie follows the pattern of the four seasons, from winter which Dani at home who is alone in the world, to a summer too bright where you can hardly see the details because of the blinding light. The whole movie lulls you into a sense of false security as it happens in an open and ever sunny environment as opposed to the more classics horror scenarios, but the horror is there and even more dangerous because you decide to willingly brush it off. It’s how fascism works and the movie has many references to it. It appeals to your sense of community, makes you feel like only one specific group (all white and blonds, you see where I’m going) can help you feel like you belong and for that, you are willing to close your eyes on the ugly side: murders, collective suicides and sexual abuse (Christian scene).
If this is a happy ending, so is Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The final girl escapes and Leatherface is finally free from this family's stranglehold of this life. He is free at last as noted by this chainsaw dance at the end.
"Dani's wishes come true"
"She accepted to descend in insanity"
So her wishes right from the beginning was to become insane?
@@ullenlaishram insanity was the price to pay
Modern Alfred Hitchcock, can’t wait to see what he has in store
I love how right off the bat he mentions how important the score was to the ending. Bobby Krylic did a fantastic job!
I don't think I've experienced a film that made me feel physically sick quite like this movie. Combining the anxiety Dani feels constantly and the gore had me constantly on edge.
Agreed.
Such a treat to listen to this guy muse in person and pick his brain a bit! (I was dude in the hat front row)
right?
@cyrus Are you with the mustache? Wearing black hat?
I saw this movie right after I got out of a deep depression and my agoraphobia was finally leaving. At the end, I was so happy. I didn't feel sick or weird at all...but I think because where I was mentally.
It was actually a turning point for me, it forced me to get comfort instead of cutting off the ones who love me when I normally feel low.
This wave of contemporary horror is amazing, and ari will be know as a huge influencer on this genra.
Aronofsky's mother, was an incredible peace of art in my opinion, and one of my top 5 of all time, but it didn't get enough recognition,
What ari excels in, is using his excellent format of story telling while using the most subtle and impressive editing and sound design,
Creating two consecutive masterpieces, that are different enough yet unmistakably came from the same source
Ari’s initial response tells me that he was uncomfortable with the idea of the ending being “happy”. It’s really a cautionary tale.
Most occult stories are and don’t end well.
THANK YOU ARI, for reawaken awakening my love for horror films! 😭
Fight Club was the first movie that ever made me feel disgusted by the time the ending rolls up. It's my fav movie ever, and it honestly changed me and now I only enjoy movies with endings like that and now Ari might be one of my favorite directors ever and we've only seen 2. Wtf. More pls
He is a huge Bergman fan. I guarantee that his next file will be a melodrama and it will haunt all of us until we die. I cannot wait. Midsommar is the best film since There Will Be Blood; Hereditary is a close second.
*film
Burning, Once Upon A Time in Anatolia and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives.
waiting on the director's cut!
Can’t believe he’s gonna go away from horror for a bit he’s seriously the best doing it right now
yea i was so sad to hear him say that he's pivoting away from horror for a few films
IKR? Romero's dead. Craven's dead. Carpenter's way past seventy. I expect that Ari Aster, Jordan Peele and Guillermo del Toro are set to be the new holy trinity of horror directors. Really, Mr Peele, lay some more of that social horror on me because right now society is the most horrifying thing there is and I just said that in a comment thread of an interview with Ari Aster.
Aster, Eggars, Aronofsky
Best directors of this generation.
Need to add PT Anderson, at the very least. Probably the Coens, too.
And Fincher.
And Nolan! Jacques Audiard too
Aronofsky is mediocre.
Yes!
The family finally _having you_ is not a happy ending. It's a satisfying one, though.
*Spoilers for Hereditary and Midsommar*
Both Hereditary and Midsommar had happy endings *for the cult families*, while many of the characters, the *individuals*, were sacrificed. Both movies are about individuals being transformed into cult family members, while the rest of the characters serve that goal, wittingly or otherwise.
Hereditary is the much stronger movie, in part because the mythology of the demon allows for a rich justification of the events of the film. There's a certain lack of justification in Midsommar - for example, the commune has plenty of contact with the outside world, including technology produced there, yet the *ideology* of the outside world is completely rejected. What happens in the real world is that cultures are "corrupted* through contact with other cultures - they don't retain their distinct form. In Hereditary, the cultists are never *separate* from the outside world - the culture of the cult is merely *on top of*, or in addition to, their identities as Americans, or Husbands, etc.
In other words - WHY are the cultists doing what they are doing in Midsommar? Besides the explanation of "it's just our way" and some degree of anti-modernism there has to be the understanding among the cultists that torture and murder is part of a greater good.
So take the "suicide at age 72". This makes more sense in a pre-modern world, when the lack of medical science meant that old people *indeed did* often lead very painful lives. But again, this commune has plenty of contact with the outside modern world, and can just send their 72-year-olds to a nursing home, or just wait until they actually need to be sent there rather than follow "Nature's mathematics".
The cult in Hereditary feels much more logical and is much more believable as a result. I just didn't believe that Midsommar's cult had been around for thousands of years. They felt like Swedes who had had enough of the modern world and were trying something new.
@@briankoontz1 honestly, having grown up in a cult, the hypocrisy and the nonsensical part of the cults reasoning stays pretty true to actual cults. That said, hereditary was the stronger film in my opinion as well
@@briankoontz1 the cult in Midsommar to me has more of a feel of having gone to observing that this seemed to be the natural cycles of a person's lifetime and then trying to force them onto a timetable. That never ends well.
If you blink and look away, he's a dead ringer for Ethan Coen.
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.
shout out to Ari Aster the Master ;) the gift we don't deserve
That 45 Years and Andrew Haigh shoutout was absolutely everything
The ending of the movie is awesome, I felt a warm and fuzzy feeling first viewing even though I knew narratively it was bad. Then I thought about it in terms of how I interpreted the symbolism and metaphors and I became convinced it was a happy ending. Now Ari says it was meant to "feel" like a happy ending and now I feel like I have to watch it again.
I found the last stretch of the movie hilariously funny, and kind of joyous in the most counterintuitive way. I don't think I've seen a film do that before - is it still a horror movie if the horrific elements are not trying to inspire, well, horror? And if not what even is it?
@@timk6181 idk man even though they may not be trying to inspire horror, thinking about what is actually happening on screen makes me still feel horrible. Especially the sex scene. When she was singing and he starting going faster i laughed, but I still felt gross and uncomfortable.
@@timk6181 Your comment could also be said about movies like Evil Dead 2 and American Werewolf In London as well. Most horror movies aren't always trying to horrify you, they're more just putting you in the shoes of horrific people or in a horrific setting. Then making you feel different emotions within them.
@@gingram2 the sex scene to me was uncomfortable, weird, and for a moment with the woman singing and staring at Christian, almost wholesome. Then the old woman pushing on his ass cheeks and just the huge wtf look he has the whole time made me laugh as well. I loved thst this movie had me feeling multiple things from upon leaving the theatre and making it home. Like Hereditary, it is a film you can sit on and ponder for some time.
I have to say I never did find it a happy ending, as Dani is broken and alone with an entire village of people who have secretly been manipulating her since she arrived, and in the case of Pelle, even before. And she has no way out. When they said that this was just the BEGINNING of the celebrations I even thought that they will end with her sacrifice.
For me this movie was mainly interesting in a way of confrontation now days and rational and humane approach to the death, life, sex, relationship VS archaic rural ancient culture that is dead. But suddenly come to life.
TH-cam with funny meme videos VS the world where nature and reality with death , birth and celebration of natures changes is the real life.
Virtuality of now days values VS others people reality - both parts are insane. But it becomes quite normal if people believe it as normality and live it day by day.
And psychedelics is like a bridge in the movie that allows audience to look at cults life as normal everyday routine.
And if not drastically abnornal emitions and faces of the villagers we could see that its just other culture, nothing more.
They different from us but they are also people that has a right to exist in the way they want to.
At least they are historically deffinatly existed in a way that was closely shown.
That was interesting for me.
Sorry for my english, its not native for me. Hello from Russia. Thank you for your movies and great interview.
AFTER HOURS! Love that film!!!
I saw this in theaters and had the worst period cramps of my life during it but I still loved it, it's one of my favorite movies now
Would straight up watch the 4 hour version
Jess, you look scrumptious :)
@@Frederick0220 down horrendous
OMG A.I. is my favorite tooooo!!! That's crazy because no one I know even likes it and most didn't even make it to the end. It always makes me cry like a wild banshee. Omg
Why would anyone break up with this dude? He is amazingly funny and creative.
also sick
Hereditary stands alone! I'd never seen anything like it before!🤕💜🤘
Diabel
How wonderful/sad is the fact that most of the inspiration of an artist usually comes from a dark place, in this case, a break up.
I'm really happy there was some decent banter from the audience and they knew some of his short films
I took a 4 day tolerance break on weed and watched this after smoking and it changed my view on the movie compared to when I watched it sober. I can't imagine watching this on psychedelics
Ari is cute as hell and so nice and respectful for someone who comes up with such messed up stuff. Hereditary affected me so much & I'll be looking forward to anything he does in the future. Want to rewatch it but I'll have to work up the courage first lol
Man, I don't know, when he said he still has 'plenty of despair left'..I hope he keeps it under control
He's an asshole that gives his negative energies a stage - sure he feels despair when he sees what hes done
Mr. Aster...we'll be watching your career with great interest.
wonderful interview, so many insights and disclosure from Ari. Looking forward to whatever he and his team does next
I feel like the zombie girl behind him is some sort of a surreal teaser for his next film.
Ari Aster is, without question, a terrific director and easily one of the most exciting emerging talents in the film industry. That said, I do tire of these sorts of annoying Q & As in which the director is asked to to psychologically regurgitate their processes and explain how they felt and what they meant while going through the emotional process of making a film. In effect, Aster's being asked to do the audience's job. Please. I'd much rather hear Aster talk about the ideas and influences that inform his thinking about film-making itself. Michael Koresky is a dull, plodding interviewer who seems incapable of asking an interesting question, instead insisting on rehashing the emotional impact of film plot points. He completely misses the boat on the film's big ideas.
Damn. Did his breakup really mess him up that darn bad? Especially with the suicide scene of the sister?
I think he wrote that as a way to keep the relationship stuck because if the suicide scene didn’t happen than Christian would have left her. And I think he needed a way to explain how he was maybe stuck in his. But that’s just my interpretation.
This guy is an absolute genius when it comes to writing and directing movies. Absolutely amazing. Real talent...
Ari Aster and Robert Eggers are the most promising talents right now. Very excited for the movies to come.
You are so honest and transparent as i image you when i was watching your films. amazing
I can see some positive catharsis in Midsommar but the interview saying this for the new family in hereditary is utterly insane.
yes we want the four hour version!
I want to see how pele manipulates the boys into being his mates
From inheritance of Tarkovsky and return to cinema as an artistic language. Bravo!
Look into the work of Bi Gan if what you're looking for
Two things:
1. I’m familiar with cognitive dissonance, but the ending is so disturbing because it creates emotional dissonance. It’s a horrific ending for everyone, including Dani, but at the same time it felt like a happy ending for Dani. That’s why this movie sticks with me.
2. The chick in the shot behind Ari Aster needs to get the fuck off her phone.