‘Chérie is not!’ Review: Chris Evans, Margaret Qualley and Aubrey Plaza are unleashed in the vigorous criminal comedy

Do you want something sexy, silly and scandalous? So you treasure Darling is not!, The last collaboration between married filmmakers Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke. La Pair, which has been collaborating since 1990 Coen Bros movie Miller’s Crossing, brought the public the crazy chaos of Car dolls Last year. Now they are back, with another story of lesbians taken in a curious crime.

Car dolls Star Margaret Qualley finds Coen and Cooke, playing a title character again. Honey O’Donahue is a private eye in a small town that keeps her cards near her chest. When a new customer presents himself in a suspicious car accident, she quips at the detective of crumpled police on the scene (Charlie Day, perfectly thrown as an affable dope), but will not give up a single observation. Interrupted, it is its mystery to solve.

During this investigation into the murder, she will meet with a woman of a female female fatale (Lera Abova), a sapphic cop (Aubrey Plaza) and an ultra-vain worship (Chris Evans). It is a wild ride with twists and turns, sex and murder!

Margaret Qualley is dynamite in Chérie is not!

Although it is the second offer in the lesbian trilogy proposed by Coen and Cooke, Chérie is not! doesn’t Share the same wide energy as its energetic predecessor, Car dolls. The key to the two films is Qualley, which sets the tone.

In the first film, it was a chaotically comical mask with a southern accent as thick as molasses and a libido as powerful as the sun. The film followed its frantic energy by rhythm and conspiracy, taking wild turns with crazy energy.

In Chérie is not!,, Qualley shakes the wacky relaxation of its members. Its stride is confident but without frills, like the rapid trigger ladies of the comedies of the 1930s and the black film of the 40s. Its look – click heels, customs of customs or tailor -made pants with well -stored dressed shirts but never bland – reflects these old -fashioned inspirations. The same goes for his frankness; It has an attitude of Katharine Hepburn without the Middle Atlantic accent. So when the above-mentioned police detective flirts with her, she says, smooth like butter, “I like girls”. (At what day responds with a joyful perplexity, “you always say that!”)

Whether it is playing the Gay Cool Aunt in a small army of nieces and nephews, discovering a frizzy index or connecting with a one -night stand, honey is sweet and sharp, but also hot. This temperament distinguishes it from the fleets of male detectives which came in front of it, all of the boastful and steel glares. In addition, his attitude reflects the atmosphere of Chérie is not!Frame: Bakersfield, California, a sunny place with a dark appetite.

Chérie is not! is a raw and refreshing caper.

The scenario of Coen and Cooke is attached to dark humor, offering joyful jokes on perverse sex, horrible death and general idiocy of crooks and crooks.

As Coen directs Chérie is not!He is tempting to look for comparisons in his filmography shared with his brother, Joel. East Chérie is not! more Raise the Arizona Or The big Lebowski? Burn after reading Or No country for old people? But engaging in this debate on risks overlooking the exciting exploration of crime stories that Coen and Cooke build with their trilogy. His stamp is clear and important here as co-scriptwriter, producer and film editor.

Yes, Chérie is not! Take inspirations from the film Noir, just like several previous Coen Bros films … and hundreds of other films before that. But this crisp California frame gives fresh air to the tropes like the femme fatale or the double cross. Or Car dolls Digzed in the rich Americana and the queer culture to find in the attractions of Road Trip and lesbian bars, Chérie is not! Embracs a less familiar clutch of knotty characters, in the sun and disturbed.

Chris Evans is hilarious, released from the constraints of Disney.

Thank God that the MCU era of Chris Evans has finished. Now the actor who turned out to be a sensational bastard in Knives Can stand out with characters who are not remote models.

In Darling is not!, He embodies the Reverend Drew, a preacher who directs a congregation of dedicated henchmen who will grant any desire for sex or violence that his twisted heart desires. Chérie is not! Offers a range of actors of beloved characters, such as Plaza, Day, Billy Eichner and the acclaimed theater interpreter Gabby Beans. And they are all game for all that is damned that Cooke and Coen get started. Where Qualley plays the hetero man of this group of Kooky clowns, Evans is a rings master of his own circus.

From the moment he flashes a comically non -sincere smile, there is a thrill of excitement. Playing punchlines with a joyful currency, Evans creates a sharp satire of a certain brand of religious leader who believes too much in his own bullshit. His physique is properly absurd. Whether he barks naked orders or gives the most hysterical delivery of the word “yes” never committed to detect, he moves like a cartoon caricature of an arrogant buffoon. Accessories in Evans for having found a new fantastic way of continuing to be America’s Ass.

What is the most exciting Chérie is not! Perhaps is also what is the most frustrating about this. Coen and Cooke have set up a mystery with a form that seems vaguely familiar at the start. But as honey pursues suspects and confusing clues, this story is anything but what you expect. And this comes down to the final, which will not divide criticism and the public.

Personally, I enjoyed the last surprise in the film, because it suggests that this story is greater than a film and perhaps even a parameter can contain. Instead of closure, Chérie is not! offers a taste of something sweet and wild, with the potential more. And I’m not angry with that.

Chérie is not! Was examined from the Cannes Film Festival. He will open the theaters on August 22.