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Olivia wilde harry styles dancing8/26/2023 ![]() While he struggles in the scenes that demand fiery anger-perhaps it’s hard to tap into for the king of kindness?-Styles believably conveys aching and angst, just as he does in his music (most notably, in the the suite of crushing breakup songs on his second album, Fine Line). There are people who will see this movie purely to behold Styles in something more than a music video in which he’s infatuated with a fish, and they likely won’t be disappointed. From left: Pine, Styles and director Wilde shoot a psychotic tap-dancing scene. Sadly, Styles’s magnetic appeal is underused in the much-hyped sex scenes, which are too fleeting (I can recall a mere two, including the dining table cunnilingus) and not nearly boundary-pushing, delicious, or artful enough-but that’s not his fault. (Although, whose fantasy is this 1950s world, exactly?) Playing dreamy is simple for a man who sells out arenas around the world and reduces fans almost to hyperventilation-the camera adores his wide blue eyes and “old-fashioned face,” as Dunkirk director Christopher Nolan once described it. The sight of him in a ruffly apron, botching a roast in the kitchen? Heaven. “My early conversations with the cast were all about how the audience has to buy into the fantasy,” Wilde recently told Variety. That the husbands seem benign-as opposed to overtly cruel or abusive-proves key. Chief among them is Styles’s Jack, partner to Alice, who is too sharp for her own good. The ladies are encouraged to get sauced, loll by the pool, and sex their one-dimensionally handsome husbands after they stroll in from a hard day at the office. It is at once a candy-coloured nightmare in which Pugh’s Alice, Wilde’s Bunny, and a merry band of housewives are gaslit into obedience, and a pleasant (for some) chauvinist commune in the desert, masterminded by a cult-y Chris Pine. Should I worry, darling, about Styles’s nascent acting career? Pugh and Styles in “Don’t Worry Darling.”ĭon’t Worry Darling transports audiences to suspiciously superficial Victory, U.S.A., home of the shadowy Victory Project. As a culture writer, I was intrigued about the film everyone is talking, tweeting, meme-ing and gossiping about, and how Styles fits into it. Alas, the only cure for my plummeting serotonin levels was more Styles: I was there to see how the pop/rock star fares in his first major acting role after a bit part in 2017’s Dunkirk curious about the much-advertised scene in which he watermelon sugars with Florence Pugh.Īs a shameless fan, I came in with an open, charitable heart, absolutely rooting for Styles. ![]() I slid into my seat at a New York screening of Don’t Worr y Darling last week still dehydrated and sleep-deprived after dancing in the glittery pit of a Harry Styles concert the night before.
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