The Substance
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The Substance
Winner, Cannes Film Festival Best Screenplay 2024
Special Engagement – One Week Only!
Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself?
You. Only better in every way.
You’ve got to try this product: The Substance.
It changed my life.
Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister past her prime and suddenly fired from her fitness TV show by repellent studio head Harvey (Dennis Quaid). She is then drawn to the opportunity presented by a mysterious new drug: THE SUBSTANCE. All it takes is one injection and she is reborn – temporarily – as the gorgeous, twentysomething Sue (Margaret Qualley).
The only rule? Time needs to be split: exactly one week in one body, then one week in the other. No exceptions. A perfect balance. What could go wrong?
Deliriously entertaining and ruthlessly satirical, Coralie Fargeat’s (Revenge, Florida Film Festival 2018) Cannes sensation turns toxic beauty culture inside out with a be-careful-what-you-wish-for fable for the ages. Explosive, provocative and twisted, THE SUBSTANCE marks the arrival of a thrillingly visionary filmmaker.
2024, 140 Minutes, United Kingdom/United States/France, Directed by Coralie Fargeat, Rated R
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"An epic, audacious masterpiece...The most sickly entertaining theatrical experience of the year."
– David Ehrlich, INDIEWIRE -
"2024’s most intoxicating cinematic experience. A newly minted body horror classic, it offers a fresh take on the depths of human ambition and playing with nature while homaging the body horror classics of yesteryear."
– David Gonzalez, THE CINEMATIC REEL -
"The greatest performance of Demi Moore's career."
– Chuck Bowen, SLANT MAGAZINE -
"The Substance sets out in the garb of a sci-fi full of Spandex-and-electro ’80s overtones, before mutating into something deliriously over-the-top as it explores the crushing aesthetic pressures placed on women in icky and necrotic ways."
– Phil de Semlyen, TIME OUT -
"Margaret Qualley is sensational."
– Gregory Ellwood, THE PLAYLIST
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