The Substance (2024)
Director: Coralie Fargeat Run Time: 141 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Demi Moore, Dennis Quaid, Gore Abrams, Hugo Diego Garcia, Margaret Qualley
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Language: English
About the film:
Winner of Best Screenplay at 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You, only better in every way. You should try this new product, it’s called The Substance. IT CHANGED MY LIFE. With The Substance, you can generate another you: younger, more beautiful, more perfect. You just have to share time — one week for one, one week for the other. A perfect balance of seven days each… Easy right? If you respect the balance… What could possibly go wrong?
“In this sophomore effort, the effect is somewhere between The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Shining—gorgeous, yet terrifying—and heightened by the director’s tendency to shoot things in extreme, visceral close-ups, including the abundant, occasionally nauseating gore.”
—Radhika Seth, Vogue World
About the filmmaker:
Coralie Fargeat, a French-born director and screenwriter, began her journey in filmmaking after studying at the Paris Institute of Political Studies and later attending La Fémis Cinema school in Paris. Her career took off with the release of her first short film, Le Télégramme (2003), which garnered acclaim in the festival circuit, earning 13 awards. She continued to make waves with her second short, Reality+ (2014), which received a nomination for the Jury Award at the Tribeca Film Festival.
In 2017, Fargeat made her feature debut with Revenge (2017) which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and went on to be selected for 23 additional film festivals worldwide. Her latest feature, The Substance (2024), premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded Best Screenplay.
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