Fasten your seatbelts: Ethan Coen, one half of the Oscar-laden Coen brothers is in the director's chair for the first time without his brother Joel. Drive-Away Dolls sees him team up with his wife, long-time Coen brothers editor, Tricia Cooke, to write the script, but while his brother Joel opted for a black and white Shakespeare adaptation for his first solo directing endeavor (2021's The Tragedy of Macbeth), Ethan opted for a raunchy lesbian road movie, featuring both cunnilingus and decapitation.
Drive-Away Dolls harkens back to the midnight movies of decades past, with Windows Movie Maker-esque screen wipes and scene transitions. The film wears its trashiness on its sleeve as zany plot threads converge with steamy sex scenes and silly jokes, channeling the vibrant production design and camp melodrama of Jamie Babbit's '90s technicolor conversion camp comedy But I'm A Cheerleader.
