Enjoying and “
not thinking about the future
”: the mega pop star Harry Styles turned heads on Monday September 5 in Venice, for the presentation of one of the event films of the Mostra,
Don’t Worry Darling
, dystopian thriller in 1950s America.
“
Harry!
Harry!
Harry!
shouted dozens of fans, when the former member of the boy band One Direction, 28, in a dark blue suit enhanced by a shirt with an XXL pie server collar, and his companion, director Olivia Wilde, in canary yellow dress, walked the red carpet.
American actor Chris Pine, American director and actress Olivia Wilde, Sydney Chandler and British singer and actor Harry Styles on September 5, 2022 for the screening of the film
Don't Worry Darling,
presented out of competition as part of the 79th International Film Festival from the Venice film.
TIZIANA FABI / AFP
Many teenage girls had been present since the morning so as not to miss their idol, landed in Venice by water taxi, before taking part in the film's press conference.
Harry Styles, the most listened to singer in the world, was probably the most anticipated star of this Mostra, with Timothée Chalamet, who came to present a film on Friday, and Ana de Armas, on the poster Wednesday for
Blonde
, the highly anticipated biopic on Marilyn Monroe.
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Presented out of competition,
Don't Worry Darling
is a kind of
Truman Show
, brought up to date and influenced by the cinema of M. Night Shyamalan or
Black Mirror
, a nightmarish series on the future and technology.
Florence Pugh (
The Daughters of Dr. March
,
Black Widow
) plays Alice, a young woman well in all respects living in Victory, a small model town built in the middle of the desert by a mysterious businessman, played by Chris Pine.
Like all her neighbors, Alice has a life regulated like music paper, and, a priori, everything to be happy alongside Jack (Harry Styles), her companion, who leaves every morning for a job she knows nothing about.
In exchange for this material well-being, Victory has only one rule: its inhabitants must never leave the city limits.
A taboo that Alice will not be long in breaking, at her own risk and peril...
"
Everything is a metaphor, the paradox of Victory is that everything that is beautiful is also sinister
", explained Olivia Wilde, actress of which it is the second realization.
Harry Styles or the ambition of cinema
This entertainment "
is like a Trojan horse
" which should make viewers think, added the director, who wanted to address the issue of power and its abuse, relationships of male domination over women or the consequences of comfort. material from each other on the lives of others…
His actor and companion Harry Styles is not completely new to the cinema, and had notably held one of the roles of a soldier in
Dunkirk
by Christopher Nolan (2017).
But the one who will soon have the leading role in
My Policeman
on Amazon Prime Video, certainly intends to climb a level with this ambitious project presented in Venice.
"
I don't want to think too much about the future
“, he said, when asked about the possibility of combining music and cinema.
"
Making music is very personal
," whereas in movies, "
you pretend to play someone else, and that's what's fun
," he said.
Florence Pugh, she did not take part in the press conference of the film, the production of which was surrounded by many rumors and controversies: the first male role had in particular been attributed to Shia LaBeouf before falling to Harry Styles.
The Briton, however, walked the red carpet in the evening, wearing a transparent black dress with sequins and puffed sleeves.
“
When it comes to endless tabloid gossip and all the noise around us, the internet feeds itself
“, had previously evacuated the director.
"
I don't need to contribute to it
."
Florence Pugh on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival, December 5, 2022. YARA NARDI / REUTERS
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