Ethan Coen’s raunchy, gory detective film “Honey Don’t!,” starring Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans, premiered to a rowdy Cannes crowd at midnight on Friday. The movie earned a six-minute standing ovation, with author Tricia Cooke declaring: “Extra queer cinema on a regular basis!”

“That’s a enjoyable approach to finish the pageant,” Coen stated as he took the microphone and quieted the clapping crowd. “Oh, and brief, for a film that began after midnight. Very humane.”

Certainly, the 90-minute “Honey Don’t” didn’t start unspooling till almost 12:30 a.m., after a half-hour delay getting into the Palais. However the Cannes crowd didn’t appear to thoughts the wait, cheering loudly for Coen, Qualley, Plaza and the remainder of the crew once they lastly entered the theater, then clapping vigorously for each producer and distributor card earlier than the film started.

One viewers member even yelled, “I really like you Aubrey!” in a present of assist for the star, for whom Cannes marked her first purple carpet look after the demise of her husband Jeff Baena in January.

Qualley’s husband, music producer Jack Antonoff, was additionally in attendance, encouraging the gang to clap louder as she giggled through the ovation. Because the credit rolled, it was revealed that Antonoff and Coen collaborated on three songs for the movie that Qualley carried out — one in every of which had a Lana Del Rey really feel to it.

Qualley headlines “Honey Don’t!” because the small-town personal detective Honey O’Donahue, who delves right into a collection of unusual deaths tied to a mysterious church. Evans, who was not current on the Cannes premiere, offers an outsized comedic efficiency because the church’s charming however evil minister. Plaza performs a cop who Qualley has a passionate love affair with till issues flip bitter when her niece disappears. Charlie Day and Billy Eichner spherical out the supporting forged.

“Honey Don’t!” marks the second collaboration between Coen and Qualley, who teamed up final yr for the street journey crime comedy “Drive-Away Dolls.” Each motion pictures function Coen within the director’s chair with out brother Joel and scripts co-written by Ethan and his spouse Tricia Cooke.

Qualley instructed i-D forward of Cannes that she needed to dial again her “pure Scooby-Doo” instincts so as to play Honey, who’s “skillful, she’s easy, she is slipping out and in undetected… I needed to be slightly extra suave than I’m, extra mysterious. I are inclined to need to diffuse issues earlier than they even occur.”

“Honey Don’t!” already has distribution courtesy of Focus Options. The film will open in U.S. theaters on Aug. 22.