Coralie Fargeat shook Cannes with The Substancewalked away with the screenplay prize, and Guillermo Del Toro obviously decided to take a look.
Produced for $17.5 million, The Substance exploded the counters at the global box office since it has raised $43.5 million since it began operating in mid-September. Coralie Fargeat's great body-horror ride has become the biggest success in the history of the Mubi platform at the box office, which had bought the film during its appearance at Cannes (even before it won the prize of scenario).
Since then, given the critical and public excitement, some experts have outright predicted a prestigious future for The Substance and its director on the Oscar side. Although it is perhaps still early to ensure his presence among the nominees, The Substance in any case attracts all-Hollywood. Recently, it was Guillermo Del Toro, who gave his opinion on Megalopolis a few weeks ago, who spoke about the French filmmaker's film.
an addictive substance
We definitely won't stop Guillermo Del Toro, always ready to support the films he loves and promote them directly on his social networks in a completely selfless manner. As usual, the director of Hellboy et Pan's Labyrinth commented on his Twitter account on one of his last viewings: The Substance. And his comments around Coralie Fargeat's film are more than complimentary.
“The Substance by Coralie Fargeat or the horror of losing oneself, the dizziness of appearances, the betrayal of the flesh… It is precise, thrilling, humorous, merciless, and it moves skillfully from pathos to terror and laughter. »
And it is true that between its psychological brutality and its deliberately grotesque scenes, The Substance mixes horror, thriller and quasi-slapstick comedy with infectious joy, without ever remaining on the surface thanks to its fascinating character study. In any case, it's not surprising that the Mexican is hooked on Coralie Fargeat's film sinceit has some similarities with an episode of the series The Cabinet of Curiosities by Guillermo Del Toro : The Prison of Appearances.
Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour, this episode of the Netflix miniseries told the story of a woman who, after using a strange lotion, undergoes a spectacular physical transformation. For the filmmaker of the superb Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (still unpublished in France), it was a way of having fun, already, with the society of appearances in a great delirium merging the genres of comedy, thriller and horror (with some very dirty body horror, of course).
To return to The Substance, Coralie Fargeat was quick to respond to Guillermo Del Toro's tweet with her account, thanking him warmly and saying “honored by her words”. We won't have to wait very long for it to be the French public's turn to form their own opinion on the film since it will be in theaters from November 6, 2024.
