How French Filmmaker Coralie Fargeat Delivered Feminist Body Horror Breakout ‘The Substance’
Coralie Fargeat tells IndieWire about the feelings of insecurity, of passing age 40, that led to her new film 'The Substance, ...
How Coralie Fargeat Made 'The Substance,' a Bloody, Campy Commentary on Aging
Ever since she turned 40, French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat has been grappling with these chaotic thoughts that will be ...
The scariest moments in "The Substance" have nothing to do with blood and guts
The following contains spoilers for "The Substance" When I walked into a local movie theater on New York’s Lower East Side to ...
How ‘The Substance’ Pulled Off That Bloody, Gloriously Disgusting Ending With Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley
Due to time constraints, Persin subcontracted the build of Monstro Eliasue’s suit to a U.K.-based company. “We had two full ...
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The Bloodiest, Most Deranged Sci-Fi Movie Ending of the Year, Explained
The Substance is a movie of escalating violence. It was born from director Coralie Fargeat’s beliefs about aging in a society that only values women for their youth and beauty. Its eponymous ...
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The Substance and Why Female Led Body Horror is Here to Stay
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2024 FEATURE! Sunset Boulevard by way of Cronenbergian bodily distortion — director ...
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CALLERI: ‘The Substance’ adds bold new dimensions to horror movies
With some exceptions regarding movies for children, the hottest genre at the box office this year has been horror. Many ...
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Coralie Fargeat’s Violent Thoughts
The Substance, Coralie Fargeat’s outrageous new body-horror movie, ends the only way it can: in a great, explosive bloodbath.
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The Substance's 8 Biggest Unanswered Questions
The Substance has an explosively ambitious ending, but there are some questions that the film leaves surprisingly open-ended ...
‘The Substance’ Doesn’t Need Awards To Be A Masterpiece
Writer/director Coralie Fargeat’s body horror film is too bold to be forgotten and too shocking to win an Oscar ...
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The Substance Director Coralie Fargeat on Playing By Her Own Rules and the Strong Weapon of Humor
Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge (2017) thrilled audiences with its never-ending finale chase sequence through hallways lubricated in Shining-level quantities of blood. The French filmmaker’s follow-up, The ...
‘The Movie Is Fundamentally About the Violence of Control’: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat Talks The Substance
Fargeat wrote the prizewinning script after turning 40, as she grappled with feelings of obsolescence and inadequacy. “I had these massive thoughts that I had reached the age where I wasn’t going to ...