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Releasing on Sep 19, 2024
- 2024
- R
- MUBI
- 2 h 20 m
- 2024
- R
- MUBI
- 2 h 20 m
Summary Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You. Only better in every way. You've got to try this new product. It changed my life.
Directed By: Coralie Fargeat
Written By: Coralie Fargeat
- 2024
- R
- MUBI
- 2 h 20 m
- 2024
- R
- MUBI
- 2 h 20 m
The Substance
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Summary Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You. Only better in every way. You've got to try this new product. It changed my life.
Directed By: Coralie Fargeat
Written By: Coralie Fargeat
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
84
100% Positive
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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While dissecting the world’s ridiculous beauty ideals, Fargeat directs her sensational feat with pungent audacity, fearless humor, and dysmorphic body horror.
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.
The humanity of Demi Moore’s performance, the greatest of her career, gives Coralie Fargeat’s boldest ideas an emotional backbeat.
Sure, it’s an exaggerated and somewhat obvious film, but that doesn’t make director Coralie Fargeat’s point any less true – nor does it detract from the tremendously gory way in which she makes it.
This potent body horror is executed with skill and compassion, bringing fresh insights alongside generous helpings of graphic gore.
Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance is a film whose style might get in the way of the substance, but it still ensures the filmmaker will have a legion of new horror fans waiting for what she does next.
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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Awards
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Munich Film Festival
• 1 Nomination