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This article originally appeared i-D US.will make you question everything — your values, the concept of time, how much horror you can consume in one sitting.follows Dani and Christian , a young couple who are on the verge of breaking up but bound by the raw grief of a shocking family tragedy that Dani endures at the start of the film.
Aster went “really deep into research” as he was writing the film, drawing on Nordic folklore in close collaboration with Swedish production designer Henrik Svensson. That research “provoked a lot of peripheral ideas” that were strewn across the film. “The first cut was three hours and forty minutes, so there’s a lot that we had to cut out of the movie. There’s a lot of detail that’s no longer there.”there is a densely curated collage of images that enrich the film.
The visual effects also help to convey the trauma that Dani is dealing with, that Pugh so compassionately portrays. When Dani learns of her family’s tragedy at the beginning of the film, the camera work becomes blurry and chaotic. It’s empathetic filmmaking at its finest, allowing us to physically feel the discomfort and chaos that she is also feeling.
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