) is struggling to pick up the pieces of her life, while also dealing with the slow-motion splintering of her relationship with boyfriend Christian . Cagey, evasive, and seemingly unaware of just how badly he’s been neglecting his traumatized partner, Christian has been planning a trip to Sweden with his buddies – scholarly anthropologist Josh and juvenile horndog Mark – to take part in a summer solstice festival at the secluded rural commune where their colleague Pelle grew up.
Pelle’s hometown is initially welcoming: full of psychotropic wildflowers, slant-roofed bungalows, and smiling Swedes in white folkdräkt singing and playing pan-flutes. One of Pelle’s “cousins” has even invited his own visitors along, a young couple from England, and at first the community’s elders are cheerfully willing to stop and explain their more peculiar traditions to these outsiders.
Florence Pugh - Count me in.