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Focus Features and Working Title person released nan first trailer for Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s drama caper “Drive-Away Dolls.” The drama is group to unfastened successful theaters connected Sept. 22.
The movie follows Jamie, played by Margaret Qualley, who is an uninhibited free tone bemoaning yet different breakup pinch a girlfriend, and her demure friend Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan), who desperately needs to loosen up. In hunt of a caller start, nan 2 embark connected an impromptu roadworthy travel to Tallahassee, but things quickly spell awry erstwhile they transverse paths pinch a group of inept criminals.
Speaking pinch Variety, Coen described nan movie arsenic “filthy fun” and a “chase intrigue movie. In 1 word, it’s a comedy.”
Cooke adds nan movie is simply a queer movie pinch Jamie and Marian’s narration move besides featured arsenic portion of nan narrative. She says, “I’m queer, and I’ve ever identified arsenic queer. Making a queer movie that was fun, playful and didn’t return itself excessively earnestly particularly backmost erstwhile we wrote it successful 2002 seemed for illustration a really nosy and absorbing idea.”
It features an awesome formed that includes Beanie Feldstein, Pedro Pascal, Colman Domingo, Bill Camp and Matt Damon.
“The actors descend their teeth into it and they conscionable person nosy pinch it, and they spell to municipality pinch it,” says Coen.
Thanks to HBO’s “The Last of Us,” Pascal has go a arena since nan movie was shot. Says Cooke, “He’s fascinating to watch and his upward trajectory. Everyone was talking astir him correct aft we vanished shooting.”
Coen, nan Oscar-winning head and screenwriter of “Fargo” and “No Country for Old Men,” is making nan movie without his relative and predominant collaborator Joel Coen. It’s not their first clip moving connected solo projects, though — Joel Coen adapted “The Tragedy of Macbeth” successful 2021 pinch Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand.
Cooke has worked arsenic an editor aliases subordinate editor connected galore of the Coen brothers’ films, including “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and “The Man Who Wasn’t There.” She says nan inspiration for nan movie was nan 1992 movie “Poison Ivy” starring Drew Barrymore.
“It’s that benignant of movie wherever nan crippled is fun,” adds Coen.
Cooke stresses nan movie is simply a queer movie. “There aren’t that galore movies of these films astir lesbians. It’s important that it’s a queer movie and important that it doesn’t return itself excessively seriously.”
Coen is directing “Drive-Away Dolls” from a book he co-wrote and produced pinch Cooke.
Watch nan trailer below.
