At the beginning of the second week of Cannes Film Festival 2024, we begin to have a clearer picture of which films will be the favorites of critics and audiences. Among the first love at first sight they are not only included Emilia Perez and (more divisively) Kinds of Kindnessbut also body horror The Substance.
After the preview, the film directed by Coralie Fargeat is getting plenty of applause and also comparisons. Many immediately compared him to Titan Of Julie Ducournaubut there is also no shortage of references to films like Carrie – Satan’s gaze, The fly or the recent body horror Of David Cronenberg always presented in Cannes, Crimes of the Future.
The Substance tells the story of Elizabeth Sparkle, actress and Hollywood star played by Demi Moore (highly acclaimed) on the verge of being cast aside because it was “too old”. After an accident, however, she discovers the possibility of undergoing a new procedure which through cell division allows her to share her body with a younger, more beautiful and perfect alter ego, here played by Margaret Qualleyone of the new young movie stars also seen in the last two films by Yorgos Lanthimos.
Then follows a story that sinks into feminist body horror, made up of needles, full-frontal nudity and a host of other creepy things that they define The Substance like the unmissable gore title of the year. Thierry Fremauxon the other hand, promised a rain of blood in Coralie Fargeat’s film and apparently he was very literal.
Precisely today, Monday 20 May, curiously it will be the turn of Cronenberg himself to walk the red carpet, having returned to the Croisette to present Shrouds with Vincent Cassel And Diane Kruger. Will The Substance, fresh from a thirteen minute standing ovation, be able to overshadow even a master of body horror like him?
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