What if we told you that the most traumatic scene in “The Substance” is neither gory nor horrific? We owe it to the immense Demi Moore…
We never tire of praising you The Substance.
By aligning hyper graphic staging, heightened gore and feminist virulence, French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat delivers with this shock to be experienced in theaters a crossover as absurd as it is shattering between Barbie (the Greta Gerwig version, the one that annoys misogynists) and Death suits you so wellsucculent macabre farce. At the heart of the work, in the shoes of a has-been star, the definitive sex symbol of the 90s, Demi Moore. Which displays an incredible sense of tragicomicity, strong in intimacy as well as in visceral emotion!
And what demonstrates this is that if this satire accumulates ultra-visual organic horror, bloodiness and various disgusts, it is not at all this side that moved us. Well, yes, but: not only. Because to find THE cataclysm of The Substancewe must go further.
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When Demi Moore gets naked in front of the mirror in a devastating scene: that's where the heart of The Substance lies
The Substanceit is a film whose form, aggressive, hyperpop, frenetic, is matched only by its abundant content: it is as much a question of youthism and cosmetic surgery as of “male gaze”, of sexualization of the body women and the entertainment industry. Moreover, we decipher for you this work which has become a phenomenon in this analysis.
But the heart of the film is clearly this…
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