Midsommar director Ari Aster: 'I often cling to dead things'

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Midsommar director Ari Aster: 'I often cling to dead things'

by Amy Nicholson

 

Ari Aster: I'm a neurotic Jew and I’m afraid of Lyme disease.’ Photograph: Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP

 

Midsommar is an agonisingly lovely horror film about four American students bungling an invite to a pagan celebration in Sweden.

 

It is highly likely to give you nightmares.

 

The film’s writer/director, Ari Aster, is currently having one of his own: battling reporters determined to discover his own demons.

 

“I’m cripplingly neurotic when it comes to these interviews,” he says. “For me, these are just total minefields.”

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jun/28/horror-director-ari-aster-hereditary-midsommar-terrors