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The Substance 2024
Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” was a Cronenbergian meets Kubrickian - tinged take on Sunset Boulevard or Whatever Happened to Baby Jane with a clear love letter to Perfect (starring Jamie Lee Curtis and John Travolta), Brian De Palma’s Carrie and more. I loved the meta presentation of an actress like Demi Moore @demimoore (not unlike Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond), who has fully encountered her body as an object, had meteoric success, and seen concretely how her efforts to mitigate…
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