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‘The Substance’ Director Coralie Fargeat On Her Film’s Five Golden Globes Nominations: “It’s A Victory For Sincerity”
‘The Substance’ director Coralie Fargeat on her film’s five Golden Globes nominations: “It’s a victory for sincerity”
It’s also only her second film; Fargeat made a big impact in genre circles with her stylish debut feature Revenge(2017), a feminist twist on the Final Girl horror movie trope that ended — for once — with a naked, blood-soaked predator cowering at the mercy of a woman with the upper hand. “Excess” is just one of the words that the director uses to describe her film’s anarchic aesthetic, in which fading movie star Elizabeth Sparkle ( Demi Moore) makes a Faustian pact with an underground pharmaceutical company that promises her eternal youth but delivers instead a destructive alter ego named Sue ( Margaret Qualley). Like, the way I was going to craft it, all the technical challenges, all the days of shooting, the level of prosthetics, of nudity, of tone, of excess, to be sure that she really had everything she needed to feel at ease jumping into such a risk-taking project, because I knew it was the only way for it to succeed.
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