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Lars Knudsen is a Danish film producer. He is the co-founder of Parts & Labor with Jay Van Hoy and the co-founder of Square Peg with Ari Aster. He is best known for producing the films Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Frank & Lola, The Witch, American Honey and Hereditary.
Sasquatch Sunset is a 2024 American absurdist fantasy drama film directed by David Zellner and Nathan Zellner, written by David Zellner, and starring Riley Keough, Jesse Eisenberg, Christophe Zajac-Denek, and Nathan Zellner. The film follows a family of Sasquatch over a period of one year. Ari Aster served as an executive producer under his ...
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An American student, Dani, is traumatized after her mentally ill sister kills their parents and herself via carbon monoxide poisoning. Dani's boyfriend, Christian, and his friends Mark and Josh, have been invited by their Swedish friend Pelle to attend a nine-day midsummer festival at his ancestral commune, the Hårga, in the rural Hälsinglandregion...
Development
In May 2018, it was announced that Ari Aster would write and direct the film, with Lars Knudsen serving as producer. B-Reel Films, a Swedish company, produced the film alongside Square Peg, with A24 distributing. Aster's previous horror film, Hereditary, had been a huge critical success, making over $80 million to become A24's highest-grossing film worldwide. According to Aster, he had been approached by B-Reel executives Martin Karlqvist and Patrik Andersson to helm a slasher film set in Swe...
Filming
Some early scenes set in the United States were also filmed there; Dani's apartment was filmed in Brooklyn, New York City, while other scenes where Christian's friends interact were filmed in Utah. The majority of the film was shot in Hungary rather than Sweden, primarily due to financial constraints, but also as Sweden limits daily film shoots to no longer than eight hours. Principal photographybegan on July 30, 2018, in Budapest, and wrapped that October. Harper said the shoot was "arduous"...
Props and costume design
Svensson said the mallet prop used for the senicide scene was a replica of one at a museum in Stockholm, and that the cliff-jumping was based on historic practices in Sweden. Costume designer Andrea Flesch developed the Hårga's costumes with antique linen from Hungary and Romania, and buttons from Sweden. Aster asked for the clothing to appear handmade, and for the Hårga to dress in white. Many of their costumes were hand-embroidered with rune designs unique to individual community members, s...
Aster wrote the film while listening to the British electronic musician the Haxan Cloak's 2013 album Excavation. Aster recruited him to compose the score, credited under his real name, Bobby Krlic. Krlic began composing the music before filming began, taking inspiration from Nordic folk music, and collaborating closely with Aster. The film makes us...
Midsommar had a pre-release screening at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in New York City, on June 18, 2019.It was theatrically released in the United States on July 3, 2019.
Box office
Midsommar grossed $27.5million in the United States and Canada, and $20.5million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $48million. In the United States and Canada, the film was projected to gross $8–10 million from 2,707 theaters over its first five days. It made $3 million on its first day, including $1.1 million from Tuesday night previews, which Deadline Hollywood called a "smashing start". It went on to debut to $10.9 million, finishing sixth at the box office; IndieWire sa...
Audience reception
Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak gave it an average 3 out of 5 stars, with 50% saying they would definitely recommend it. Ankur Pathak of The Huffington Post says it "divided audiences (and some critics)", while Screen Rantwriter Mark Birrell said it was "one of the most polarizing horror movies of 2019" among general audiences. Birrell cited, as the film's positive qualities, its performances, cinematography, music, it...
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 83% based on 404 reviews, and an average rating of 7.6/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Ambitious, impressively crafted, and above all unsettling, Midsommar further proves writer-director Ari Aster is a horror auteur to be reckoned with." On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, the film has a score of 72 out of 100, based on 54 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". John DeFore of...
Writing in The Guardian, Steve Rose describes Midsommar as "a powerful study of grief, betrayal, breakups, and more". Rose suggests that Dani's three male companions may be seen as representing "toxic masculinity", or analogues of the three male companions in The Wizard of Oz (namely the Tin Man, Cowardly Lion and Scarecrow). Rose proposes that the...
Midsommar at IMDbMidsommar at MetacriticMidsommar at Rotten Tomatoes7. Mai 2020 · Lars Knudsen. Florida-based Danish producer Lars Knudsen has created a string of horror hits over recent years, including Robert Eggers’ The Witch (2015) and two features by Ari Aster,...
Lars Knudsen is a film producer. In 2004, he and producer Jay Van Hoy founded Parts & Labor, a production company dedicated to director-driven, collaborative filmmaking.Parts & Labor has produced more than 20 films including The Witch, American Honey, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, and Beginners.
Producer: Midsommar. Lars Knudsen is known for Midsommar (2019), Hereditary (2018) and The Witch (2015).
14. Apr. 2023 · In his third feature outing with ascendant genre filmmaker Ari Aster on Beau Is Afraid, Lars Knudsen produced the duo’s most ambitious, thought-provoking and outlandish work yet — a...
