THE SUBSTANCE

USA, UK. FRANCE | 2024 | COLOR | DCP | 140’ | ENGLISH 

In her most outrageously gutsy performance, Demi Moore plays an Oscar winner-star, now a washed-up TV fitness show host. When the network replaces her with a younger woman, she resorts to a mysterious substance that promises to bring out -literally- her best, youngest and most beautiful self. Not without a price. Nothing prepares you for the film that made Cannes resound with howls of disgust and excitement, as Coralie Fargeat puts the most generous doses of body horror of the last decade into her feminist blender to deliver a delightful satire of the entertainment industry's attitude towards women. Unapologetically camp and indescribably gory, the brazen film won Best Screenplay at Cannes, giving new meaning to the term midnight movie.

DIRECTOR: Coralie Fargeat
SCREENWRITER: Coralie Fargeat
DoP: Benjamin Kracun
MUSIC: Raffertie
EDITORS: Coralie Fargeat, Jérôme Eltabet, Valentin Feron
PRINCIPAL CAST: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid

CORALIE FARGEAT
French director, screenwriter and editor, born in 1976 in Paris. She began studying political science only to be won by the film sets. She started from short films and with her debut feature, "Revenge", she won honors and awards at a series of international film festivals.

FILMOGRAPHY
2024 The Substance 
2017 Revenge