VIDEO. For “The Substance”, Coralie Fargeat used 21,000 liters of blood, an absolute record for a film

Have you ever dreamed of a better version of yourself? Coralie Fargeat suggests you try The Substance. Director, screenwriter and co-producer, she gives us the secrets of her latest feature film which is inspired by her “experience as a woman”.

“I have always been inadequate in relation to what was expected of me. I have, I think, all my life since I was a child, felt judged by looks. I had the impression that I had to resemble the standards that were proposed to me, of those absolutely sublime women that we saw on the covers of magazines who were tampered with, without my knowing it. And always with this feeling that, once past forty and moving towards. In my fifties, my life was going to be over because I was no longer young, I was no longer sexy. So I was going to lose interest in everyone and I was going to be almost erased from society. Coralie Fargeat tells franceinfo.

It took 21,000 liters of blood to achieve The Substancea record for a film. A genre film, as Coralie Fargeat likes them: “It’s this cinema that built me, that left its mark on me, that made me experience absolutely incredible emotions. (…) I know that horror and the genre in general allowed me to “express the violence at the height of what I felt through a means which is precisely not realistic but which is symbolic and which allows to infuse, I think, the spectator while offering him a playful experience.”

Coralie Fargeat's feature film, starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, won the screenplay prize at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. It is released in theaters this Wednesday.