Focus Options had the ultimate slot of the Official Choice right here in Cannes this night with Ethan Coen’s Honey Don’t!, a darkish comedy reuniting Margaret Qualley with the filmmaker on the heels of final 12 months’s Drive-Away Dolls. Coen & Co. obtained a 6.5-minute ovation within the wee hours of the morning.
Qualley takes on the titular function of Honey O’Donahue, a small-town non-public investigator who delves right into a sequence of unusual deaths tied to a mysterious church.
Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans additionally characteristic prominently within the forged, which moreover contains Charlie Day, Billy Eichner, Lera Abova, Jacnier, Gabby Beans, Talia Ryder, Kristen Connolly, Lena Corridor, Don Swayze, Josh Pafchek, Kale Browne, Alexander Carstoiu and Christian Antidormi.
Coen directed from his script written with spouse Tricia Cooke, the veteran editor who has minimize such Coen Brothers classics as The Huge Lebowski and O Brother, The place Artwork Thou?, additionally co-writing Drive-Away Dolls.
Focus releases domestically on August 22. Common Photos Worldwide is dealing with abroad distribution.
Producers on the undertaking are Coen, Cooke, Robert Graf and Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.
Coen has been bringing films to Cannes’ Official Choice because the Nineteen Eighties, beginning with 1987’s Elevating Arizona which he co-wrote with brother Joel who directed.
Notable Cannes titles from the duo have additionally included Barton Fink (1991/Palme d’Or, Greatest Director, Greatest Actor); The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), Fargo (1996/Greatest Director); O’ Brother, The place Artwork Thou? (2000); The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001/Greatest Director); The Ladykillers (2004/Jury Prize); No Nation for Previous Males (2007); and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013/Grand Prize). In 2022, Ethan Coen introduced his documentary Jerry Lee Lewis: Bother in Thoughts for a Particular Screening.
