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Directed By: Coralie Fargeat
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The Substance
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Directed By: Coralie Fargeat
Written By: Coralie Fargeat
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
84
100% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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It’s the casting of Moore, though, and her willingness to denude herself at 61 – emotionally, as well as physically – that gives The Substance a startling connection with its themes. Not for 30 years has she owned a film with anything like this certitude. Watching her confront the Demi Moore in the mirror, and do it so mercilessly, is extraordinary.
A bold dissection on aging and self-hatred Fargeat’s latest work is an utter visual marvel and features superb performances from its lead actresses; Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.
An immensely, unstoppably, ecstatically demented fairy tale about female self-hatred, Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance will stop at nothing — and I mean nothing — to explode the ruthless beauty standards that society has inflicted upon women for thousands of years.
This potent body horror is executed with skill and compassion, bringing fresh insights alongside generous helpings of graphic gore.
The Substance is the work of a filmmaker with a vision. She’s got something primal to say to us.
In its trashiness – and, yes, its refusal of serious substance – The Substance should really be put out on VHS cassettes and watched at home in homage to the great era of home entertainment pulp and video-store masterpieces of weirdness and crassness.
The most compelling parts of The Substance deal with how social conventions turn women against themselves. A stronger version of the film might have dug into the complexities of that truth, instead of simply arranging itself around it.
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