Ethan Coen’s raunchy, gory detective movie “Honey Don’t!,” starring Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans, premiered to a rowdy Cannes crowd at midnight on Friday. The film earned a six-minute standing ovation, with creator Tricia Cooke declaring: “Further queer cinema frequently!”
“That’s a pleasant strategy to complete the pageant,” Coen said as he took the microphone and quieted the clapping crowd. “Oh, and temporary, for a movie that started after midnight. Very humane.”
Actually, the 90-minute “Honey Don’t” didn’t begin unspooling until nearly 12:30 a.m., after a half-hour delay moving into the Palais. Nevertheless the Cannes crowd didn’t seem to ideas the wait, cheering loudly for Coen, Qualley, Plaza and the rest of the crew as soon as they lastly entered the theater, then clapping vigorously for every producer and distributor card sooner than the movie began.
One viewers member even yelled, “I actually such as you Aubrey!” in a gift of help for the star, for whom Cannes marked her first purple carpet take care of the demise of her husband Jeff Baena in January.
Qualley’s husband, music producer Jack Antonoff, was moreover in attendance, encouraging the gang to clap louder as she giggled by means of the ovation. As a result of the credit score rolled, it was revealed that Antonoff and Coen collaborated on three songs for the film that Qualley carried out — one among which had a Lana Del Rey actually really feel to it.
Qualley headlines “Honey Don’t!” as a result of the small-town private detective Honey O’Donahue, who delves proper into a set of bizarre deaths tied to a mysterious church. Evans, who was not present on the Cannes premiere, gives an outsized comedic effectivity as a result of the church’s charming nonetheless evil minister. Plaza performs a cop who Qualley has a passionate love affair with until points flip bitter when her niece disappears. Charlie Day and Billy Eichner spherical out the supporting cast.
“Honey Don’t!” marks the second collaboration between Coen and Qualley, who teamed up closing yr for the road journey crime comedy “Drive-Away Dolls.” Every movement footage perform Coen throughout the director’s chair with out brother Joel and scripts co-written by Ethan and his partner Tricia Cooke.
Qualley instructed i-D ahead of Cannes that she wanted to dial once more her “pure Scooby-Doo” instincts in order to play Honey, who’s “skillful, she’s straightforward, she is slipping in and out undetected… I wanted to be barely additional suave than I’m, additional mysterious. I are inclined to wish to diffuse points sooner than they even happen.”
“Honey Don’t!” already has distribution courtesy of Focus Choices. The movie will open in U.S. theaters on Aug. 22.
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