spacetime coordinates: 1950s utopian experimental community ‘Victory’, California
Don’t Worry Darling is a 2022 American psychological thriller/mystery film directed by Olivia Wilde. The film stars Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Wilde, Gemma Chan, KiKi Layne, Nick Kroll, and Chris Pine. The film follows an idyllic housewife living in a company town who begins to suspect a sinister secret being kept from its residents by the man who runs it. (wiki)
Although the film is set in a place described only as “Victory Town” onscreen, it’s very clearly set – and its exteriors were filmed – in Palm Springs, California, from which most of its interior design is directly derived. The city has one of the largest caches of mid-century-modern (MCM) architecture and design in the world, and nearly every single visual element in the film draws heavily from the MCM aesthetic.
Frank, the Victory Project’s leader, is shown living in Kaufmann House, one of the most well-known mid-century homes in the world. Although the Kaufmann House’s exterior has been shown at various times over the years in both film and TV, “Don’t Worry Darling” is the first film to feature scenes shot on the property itself, including several peeks at its rarely seen interiors.
The hilltop headquarters of the Victory Corporation is the iconic “volcano house” in the Mojave Desert community of Newberry Springs, California.
The geometric dancers featured in the film are based on the choreography of Busby Berkeley, most known for his film musicals released in the 1930s.
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