An even more auteur Coen, this one signed by only one of the two brothers, Ethan, together with his wife, a member of the queer community Tricia Cooke, or Drive-Away Dolls, a gay comedy on the road that cannot help but make you think of a Thelma and Louise with the added value of Coen madness.
The film, in theaters from tomorrow with Universal Pictures International Italy exclusively in the original language with subtitles and produced by Working Title, has as its protagonists the reserved and shy Marian (played by Geraldine Viswanathan, an Australian actress with an Indian father) and the unbridled and sex addict Jaime (Margaret Qualley, Poor Creatures! and Sanctuary).
We are in 1999 and it all starts with a man killed in an alley with a corkscrew in his neck and, followed by a hilarious lesbian cunnilingus in which we meet Jaime for the first time dealing with an occasional lover.
Then we enter a typically Coenian story, narrated by Tricia Cooke who had a great desire to tell the story of the gay female world.
Returning to the story, Jaime and Marian need a restart so they undertake a car trip to Tallahassee in Florida, but the car they rent is unfortunately the wrong one, not intended for them, but for a group of not too smart criminals, who want to get back possession of what's in the trunk.
That is, a mysterious metal suitcase and a refrigerated hatbox.
During this trip Jaime and Marian don't fail to linger in all the women's bars on the road and also come across the gay party of a wild women's hockey team.
Meanwhile, as the criminals are about to reach them, they also discover that a story is possible between them.
The cast of Drive-Away Dolls also includes Beanie Feldstein, Colman Domingo, Bill Camp, Pedro Pascal and Matt Damon, protagonist of an extraordinary cameo in which he plays a Republican senator who has something very intimate to hide.
In an interview with Empire, the director explained what he and Cooke's goal was in telling this story.
"Neither of us intended to make an LGBT-themed film about the pain or difficulty of being gay. There are others capable of doing this. Drive-Away Dolls was born from an idea that Cooke had about 20 years ago , reworked over time while maintaining the setting unchanged in the 1990s".
The latter finally explains: "We had written it as an LGBT-themed film, but the queer world is much broader today, so we thought it would be dated if we made it more contemporary. Furthermore, it is a film about a robbery in which people can't connect, so we didn't want there to be smartphones. At the time, in short, we wanted to make a genre film, because there was a lack of them in the LGBT world, just like today."
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