Florence Pugh and Harry Styles play a couple who find trouble in paradise in a thriller that's nowhere near as interesting as its production history.
For a gaslighting thriller about suburban malaise and retrograde gender politics, it’s not an unpromising setup. For a while, you’re held by the sheer weirdness of this, and also by the bright-colored surfaces of Katie Byron’s Atomic Age production design. Day after day, Alice and her fellow wives exchange beaming smiles and go through their robotically synchronized rituals.
Notably, too, not every resident of this community is white, which is one sign that this isn’t the typical Hollywood ’50s flashback. Among the exceptions are Frank’s wife, Shelley ; Peg’s husband, Pete ; and Margaret , a depressive insomniac whose violent unraveling provides an early clue that all is not well. Then again, “clue” might be too subtle a word.
It’s an intriguing story that becomes less and less interesting by the minute. That’s partly because the movie spends much too long on the buildup and partly because, for gender politics, he-said-she-said mystery and sheer narrative juice, “Don’t Worry Darling” has been more or less eclipsed by its own much-publicized production history.
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