Film No. 13. DRIVE AWAY DOLLS (2024). 25th Feb.

 

Film No. 13  (2024)  February 25th.  7:10 PM  EVENT CINEMAS, Cine 10,  Innaloo.

"I don't believe it is relevant to the twentieth century lesbian!" (Jamie, exasperated with her love life, describes her feelings to friend Marian).

Is the official trailer for DRIVE AWAY DOLLS (D A D) misleading? Maybe, but there is nothing in the trailer that isn't in the film.

The fact is, Ethan Cohen and wife Tricia Cooke began writing D A D in the early 2000's based loosely on an experience Cooke had in her youth. It's a love story, ultimately, of an explicit variety. If you keep in mind the time is 1999, when sex scenes like these would never make the big screen. So Jamie (Margaret Qualley) and  Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan) need to consummate their brooding relationship, and they do it on the road, in a Drive Away, delivery car that wasn't intended for them, carrying valuable goods that aren't theirs, and being hotly pursued by a couple of bumbling fools. Trouble is just around the corner, Cohen style.

D A D is fun. It's silly. It's forgettable. It's less sexy, more raunchy. It's another notch in the Margaret Qualley belt. It's good entertainment of the queer variety. 9GUMS.