‘Two girls are running away’
Manager: Ethan Coen
Distribution: Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Colman Domingo
Year: 2024
Premiere: March 1, 2024
★★★
The path the Coen brothers have taken since they stopped assembling an artistic team in 2019 invites us to speculate about how their duo contributes to the tragicomic sensibility of their work. If the first fiction that Joel directed alone was the solemn and solemn ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’, now Ethan is releasing a professionally cartoonish lesbian ‘road movie’ that is probably the wildest of movies. movies Published by Coen label. It is also the rudest.
As we watch how the young women of the title – a textbook odd couple – find themselves pitted against a few incompetent criminals in the service of a political conspiracy. ‘Two Girls on the Run’ references some of the siblings’ most obvious comics -‘Arizona Baby’, ‘The Big Lebowski’, ‘Burn After Reading’- and ‘Faster, Pussy Cat!’ Other references like Kill! Kill!’ or ‘Deadly Kiss’, without measuring either.
As he moves from one ridiculous situation to the next, he occasionally displays a typically ‘Coencian’ sharpness in his dialogue and visual gags, at any rate compensating for his lack of formal control, all the while trying too hard to be absurd and uncomplicated in his approach to sex, and just ‘weird’ enough to be convincing. . His presence is both good news, as it gets a festive turn from his director, and an indication that it’s better to be around his brother.