‘Drive-Away Dolls’ Review: Ethan Coen Teams Up With Game Cast For Wacky Lesbian-Driven B-Movie Crime Comedy
21.02.2024 - 18:55
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Director Ethan Coen – collaborating with wife Tricia Cooke instead of brother Joel – delivers a disposable but not entirely unentertaining lesbian-centered crime caper comedy in Drive-Away Dolls. With its raunchy sex and vivid violence, the film is more an affectionate tribute to hard R drive-in B movies that more resembles something from the mind of Russ Meyer than anything resembling smart, Oscar-y movies like the Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men, Big Lebowski, Barton Fink, Fargo, Blood Simple etc.
Drive-Away Dolls definitely retains the quirkiness of the Coen brand, but key inspirations this time were Meyers’ Motorpsycho, Bad Girls Go To Hell and even something really good like ’50s noir Kiss Me Deadly, with which it shares some plot details.
But “plot” doesn’t really matter much here. Coen and Cooke throw everything against the wall to see what sticks. If it makes narrative sense, it likely is an accident. Coen isn’t a fan of authenticity when it comes to details.
I once asked him about the fact that his 1961-set Inside Llewyn Davis featured a scene where the characters were outside a theatre staring at a movie poster for 1963’s Disney film The Incredible Journey. He indicated he really didn’t care. Don’t let the facts get in the way, I guess. That the title of this film was originally to include a certain epithet for gay women tells you everything, but even Coen is subject to modern rules of decorum these days. Perhaps that is why this thing is period, set in 1999 and Y2K on the eve of the 2000 Presidential election.
Jamie (Margaret Qualley) is a free spirited, anything-goes lesbian getting over a breakup with take no prisoners tough cop Sukie (a hilarious Beanie Feldstein) who does not take their parting
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