Passes the Bechdel test

Midsommar

Name: Midsommar
Released: 2019

2019. Directed by Ari Aster, written by Ari Aster.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
13 women characters. 12 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 10 scenes out of 120.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.

The film

Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, Christian invites a grieving Dani to join him and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday in the North European land of eternal sunlight takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that render the pastoral paradise increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing.

Released: 03 Jul 2019
Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Rated: R
IMDb: 7.1 / 10
Metascore: 72 / 100
Awards: 27 wins & 74 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Christian 198 lines, man
Dani 189 lines, woman
Pelle 120 lines, man
Josh 62 lines, man
Mark 62 lines, man
Siv 33 lines, woman
Plump Elder 24 lines
Connie 22 lines, woman
Blonde Woman 19 lines, woman
Simon 19 lines, man

Full cast, 38 people

Florence Pugh as Dani
Jack Reynor as Christian
William Jackson Harper as Josh
Will Poulter as Mark
Vilhelm Blomgren as Pelle
Isabelle Grill as Maja
Gunnel Fred as Siv
Ellora Torchia as Connie
Archie Madekwe as Simon
Henrik Norlén as Ulf
Agnes Westerlund Rase as Dagny
Julia Ragnarsson as Inga
Mats Blomgren as Odd
Lars Väringer as Stev
Anna Åström as Karin
Hampus Hallberg as Ingemar
Liv Mjönes as Ulla
Louise Peterhoff as Hanna
Katarina Weidhagen as Ylva
Björn Andrésen as Dan
Tomas Engström as Jarl
Dag Andersson as Sven
Lennart R. Svensson as Mats
Anders Beckman as Arne
Rebecka Johnston as Ulrika
Tove Skeidsvoll as Majvor
Anders Back as Valentin
Anki Larsson as Irma
Levente Puczkó-Smith as Ruben
Frans Cavallin Rosengarten as Bror
Vilmos Kolba as Elder
Mihály Kaszás as Torbjörn
Gabi Fón as Dani's Mother
Zsolt Bojári as Dani's Father
Klaudia Csányi as Terri
Anna Berentzen as Pizza Waitress
Austin R. Grant as Hipster Guy
Ari Aster as Podcast on Mark's Phone (voice) (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 8% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 120

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	0	0
4 to 6	24	12
7 to 9	3	20
10 to 12	0	0
13 to 15	6	11
16 to 18	36	54
19 to 21	1	1
22 to 24	7	30
25 to 27	21	51
28 to 30	14	34
31 to 33	17	37
34 to 36	12	45
37 to 39	3	9
40 to 42	0	1
43 to 45	18	15
46 to 48	7	8
49 to 51	4	28
52 to 54	8	19
55 to 57	6	2
58 to 60	20	16
61 to 63	0	0
64 to 66	4	45
67 to 69	8	20
70 to 72	14	18
73 to 75	8	10
76 to 78	4	7
79 to 81	4	14
82 to 84	9	18
85 to 87	0	3
88 to 90	10	11
91 to 93	12	11
94 to 96	40	7
97 to 99	0	1
100 to 102	2	4
103 to 105	8	0
106 to 108	0	0
109 to 111	3	2
112 to 114	2	1
115 to 117	0	0
118 to 120	0	0

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scenes

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.

DANI: Hey. I’m up. CHRISTIAN DANI: I’m just going to that party for like 45 minutes. You should keep sleeping. Oh - I’ll come with you...!

DANI: To Sweden? Christian nods a stiff “yes.” DANI: You don’t want me to. CHRISTIAN DANI: I just asked you. After I broke down crying!

DANI: No, I just need to get settled. CHRISTIAN DANI: Okay. Well. I’ll wait for you. No - go ahead!

DANI: I’m sorry. I’m gonna walk. CHRISTIAN DANI: I can walk, too. No no. Sorry. I’m gonna... Dani starts to walk off, a terrible feeling rising in her.

CONNIE: Are you feeling it?! DANI: I wanna sleep. How can I sleep? HOURS LATER CLOSE-UP OF DANI’S SLEEPING FACE. In the distance: a faint, barely discernible melody. It sounds…

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 37 are women's.

335 lines from women, 565 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

13 women and 15 men in the cast. 12 women and 25 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 4 of 975. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 25 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 39% of the words (4,968), men 61% (7,800). Women have 37% of the lines, so their lines run longer than men's.

Exhibit E: the test the other way

Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.

Conversations between two named characters

Two women

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

2 of the 11 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 23% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Ari Aster (man)
Written by: Ari Aster (man)
Produced by: Lars Knudsen (man), Beau Ferris (gender not listed), Patrik Andersson (man)
Shot by: Pawel Pogorzelski (man)
Edited by: Lucian Johnston (man)
Music by: Bobby Krlic (man)
Production design by: Henrik Svensson (man)
Cast by: Jessica Kelly (woman), Jeanette Klintberg (woman)