Olivia Wilde's second film is out in UK cinemas on Friday
Chief amongst that cast is Florence Pugh, who leads the film with her unmatchable talent, leaving co-star Harry Styles in her dust. She plays his perfect '50s suburban housewife Alice, who begins to awaken to the mysterious goings-on within their seemingly idyllic home in the middle of the desert.says things that have been said before. This is in itself fine, except it doesn't say them in any new or exciting way.
Wilde is clearly a filmmaker with vision: the cinematography is both beautiful and clever, placing Alice almost always in the centre of the universe. She uses circular camera angles to spin the gravitational pull of the film around Alice, which is both nauseating and an effective tool at drawing us into her world.
In fact, some of the only times Alice isn't the centre of focus are during her sex scenes, which make them feel strangely uncomfortable.
His wife Shelly, played by Gemma Chan, moves through the film with airy confidence and ethereal grace that is both frightening and desirable – she is the ultimate queen bee, you want her and want to be her at the same time, even as you're afraid of her. With all of these themes at play, Wilde doesn't pick one upon which to build her house: fear, paranoia, gender, monogamy, the American dream, big brother; they all shift places constantly, creating a piecemeal foundation that can't support the weight of the film's lofty ambitions.
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