'Let the festivities begin!'
Those festivities, may not exactly be what's expected by the characters in last year's folk horror flick Midsommar. The movie follows a trip of friends who travel to Sweden for a festival that only occurs every 90 years. What begins as an idyllic retreat, quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a bizarre pagan cult.
'I’m trying to keep an open mind though. It’s cultural, you know?'
Christian
Christian may be open minded, but he and girlfriend Dani (Florence Pugh) are about to enter... lets say a rough patch, in their relationship. While drugged, Christian is coerced into a sexual ritual designed to impregnate of the cults female members. Eventually, Christian comes to his senses and attempts to get away. He doesn't succeed, and ends up then paralyzed by one of the cult's elders.
Christian is played by Irish-American actor Jack Reynor who has an impressive acting resume which includes roles in 2012's What Richard Did for which he won an IFTA Award for best film actor. Reynor's moved between blockbusters including Transformers: Age of Extinction to films like Macbeth and Glassland which garnered the actor another award, this time the Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Reynor also recently appeared in the CBS All Access series Strange Angel.
The film's sexual ritual scene was quite shocking for some viewers as it included full frontal nudity from it's male star. Viewers are used to seeing female characters both nude and venerable in horror scenes, but it was Christian with the most exposure in Midsommar. The scene was quite long, and I oddly found especially hot when one of the female elders put her hands on Christian's ass during the ritual to help push his trusting along. Love Reynor's uncomfortable look back.
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