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Cannes Goes Ape — for ‘The Substance,’ Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley’s Flesh-Shredding Body Horror, With 11-Minute Standing Ovation
Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley's feminist body horror film 'The Substance' earned a standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival on Sunday night.
Jaw-dropping, nauseating, defiant, hilarious “ The Substance ” — a body horror thriller from French director Coralie Forgeat starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley — rocked Cannes Film Festival on Sunday night with an 11-minute standing ovation. Moore takes a leap of faith and winds up on the bathroom floor spine split open like a Christmas ham when this new version — played by Qualley — comes slithering out of her back. In an interview with Variety, the French director discussed the film’s feminist themes, saying that body horror is “the perfect vehicle to express the violence all these women’s issues are about.”
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