Don't Worry Darling

Ahead of the 'Don't Worry Darling' premiere at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, here are all of the movies worth revisiting to better understand director ...

If you somehow missed the viral trailer, Wilde confirmed in a recent Vogue interview that Don’t Worry Darling will be “really sexy, in a grown-up way” like many of Adrian Lyne’s various psychosexual thrillers. Before it veers off into sci-fi territory, Don’t Worry Darling dramatises the quietly stifling nature of midcentury American life – highlighting the power imbalance in Alice and Jack’s relationship. After endless Covid-19-related delays, Don’t Worry Darling will finally hit cinemas on 23 September. Inspired by a 2019 script written by Carey and Shane Van Dyke, the plot centres on a ’50s housewife named Alice (Florence Pugh), whose husband Jack (Harry Styles) has recently started a mysterious job in an idyllic community known as Victory. Predictably, there’s more than first meets the eye in this desert suburb, though, with Alice promptly turning whistleblower – much to Jack’s fury.