POPULAR PULA
THE SUBSTANCE
DIRECTOR: Coralie Fargeat
COUNTRY: USA, UK, F
YEAR/DURATION: 2024. • 140′
horror
Info
- SCREENPLAY: Coralie Fargeat
- CINEMATOGRAPHY: Benjamin Kračun
- EDITORS: Coralie Fargeat, Valentin Feron, Jerome Eltabet
- PRODUCTION DESIGN: Stanislas Reydellet
- COSTUME DESIGN: Emmanuelle Youchnovski
- SOUND DESIGN: Emmanuelle Villard, Valerie Deloof, Stephane Thiebaut
- CAST: Demi Moore, Dennis Quaid, Margaret Qualley
- PRODUCERS: Tim Bevan, Coralie Fargeat, Eric Fellner
- PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Working Title Films, A Good Story
Synopsis
Elisabeth Sparkle, star of an aerobics show, is fired on her 50th birthday by her boss because of her age. When she returns home, her morale is at its lowest, and she receives an unexpected proposal. A mysterious laboratory offers her a miraculous “substance”: if she injects it, she will become “the best version” of herself, “younger, more beautiful, more perfect”.
Festivals and awards
Cannes Film Festival 2024 – Nomination for Palme d’Or, Award for Best Screenplay
Trailer
About the director
Coralie Fargeat
(1976) is a French film director and screenwriter. Her work is strongly influenced by genre films and filmmakers such as David Cronenberg, David Lynch, and Quentin Tarantino. She is best known for her 2017 debut feature film Revenge, for which she received awards from independent film festivals across the world. Her second feature The Substance (2024), a feminist body horror film starring Demi Moore, screened in the main competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where Fargeat won the Best Screenplay award.
Screening
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- ARENA – MONDAY 15.7.2024.
23:40
- ARENA – MONDAY 15.7.2024.
