Drive-Away Dolls

Le film bizarre et inquantifiable de l'année. Et ça se reflète dans la fréquentation, fréquentation que trois amis et moi-même avons assuré à nous seuls pendant deux jours au Cinema City Flora, à Prague, deux d'entre eux ayant même dormi. Ethan Coen devait être sous l'influence d'une certaine substance pour avoir ainsi filmé ses visions hallucinogènes et fantasmes sexuels lesbiens. J'ai ri quelques fois, mais plutôt d'un rire tragicomique provoqué par le film, le contexte et l'atmosphère générale. Un film composé d'un mix de folie, de jeux lesbiens et de longs dialogues ennuyeux. Margaret Qualley ne convient pas autant que d'habitude, même si le film repose sur elle  ; Matt Damon est fait plaisir à voir et Pedro Pascal semblait presque invisible, ne jouant pratiquement qu'ave sa tête. Miley Cyrus, elle, renforce l'étrangeté ambiante. Est-ce mauvais ou bon ? Moi, je verrais bien ça comme un navet à l'échelle mondiale qui deviendra ensuite un film culte lors des soirées entre cinéphiles, où on ne diffuse que des mauvais films et où tout le monde passe un bon moment avec une bonne dose d'alcool et de drogue. (25/03/2024)

If Drive-Away Dolls had been made by someone else and I could have criticized them for imitating the Coens, it would have been better. Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke do their best, but I still felt like I'd seen most of the movie before and not much surprised me except the contents of the briefcase. Plus, Margaret Qualley pushed the envelope a little too hard in my opinion. (30/03/2024)

It’s a running joke, but it’s appropriate. Another film that looks like it was made by the hacked Twitter account of a famous filmmaker. I expected some dry and stiff directing, and I got a truly large portion of it. From the first scene, Ethan absolutely misses the mark. Drive-Away Dolls is dumb, devoid of timing, with no point. The verbal ping pong between the annoying characters has none of the rhythm or nuance to which we are accustomed from the Coen brothers; rather, the unlikable characters juggle stiff phrases and dialects. The trademarks are here (coincidences, statues, a hallucinogenic intermezzo), but they’re so haphazardly put together, in a weak story no less, that this screwball comedy seems like a lesbian version of Dumb and Dumber, but without the humour. Furthermore, the whole thing is dated. A queer comedy in which the female protagonists are rather like male teenagers in their fondness for vulvas and penetration, Thelma and Louise castrating the patriarchy with tragic clumsiness and literalness. I feel that my favourite brothers have never stooped to this level and I strongly hope that they never will. Better to have five more Shakespeares from Joel, please! (22/03/2024)

Coen obviously slept through the times, because coming up with this in this day and age had no chance of succeeding from the start. We have here a lesbian crime drama where two girls borrow a rental car and drive to Florida to take a break and kiss some women along the way, but they have something in the trunk that two gangsters are looking for and want back. The contents of the suitcase are pretty good, but I thought it was stupid to base a whole movie on that. Pedro Pascal and Matt Damon only have very brief cameos, so clickbait, but Margaret Qualley's performance is excellent, the pair of gangsters are straight out of the 90's, and the black humour is occasionally good. All in all, a dud of a watch with no higher ambitions that didn't completely offend but at the same time didn't thrill. Pure average. Love Lies Bleeding will be very different 5/10. (13/03/2024)