The Substance
The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
5 Academy Awards nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director & Best Original Screenplay
Winner of the Best Screenplay award, 2024 Cannes Film Festival
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
Coralie Fargeat
Coralie Fargeat is a French filmmaker, screenwriter and actress. She gained recognition with her 2017 debut feature film Revenge, for which she received several awards. Her follow-up feature, The Substance (2024), a satirical body horror film, won her the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay and earned her accolades worldwide, including at the Academy Award, making her the second French woman to be nominated for Best Director, one year after Justine Triet.
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Coup de gueule, coup de «gore», coup de génie
Cette allégorie jusqu’au-boutiste de l’âgisme féminin et de la misogynie intériorisée ne ressemble à rien. [...] Coralie Fargeat s’aventure dans les contrées de l’horreur corporelle (body horror) balisées jadis par David Cronenberg, et se les approprie au passage. Ce faisant, la scénariste, réalisatrice et comonteuse, dont ce n’est que le deuxième long métrage, déploie une vision furieusement baroque et satirique, sanguinolente et symbolique. [...] Halluciné et hallucinant, le résultat doit être vu pour être cru.
