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Coralie Fargeat Loves Her Inner Monster
If she had listened to her haters, her Oscar-nominated film, The Substance, wouldn’t exist.
I met Coralie Fargeat, the writer-director of The Substance, there the morning of Super Bowl Sunday — a rest day during an Oscar season that is otherwise packed with parties and awards shows. The Los Angeles in Fargeat’s The Substance is built from the cinematic iconography of itself: palm trees set against a hard blue sky, a splashy billboard, flashing bulbs, a star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Los Angeles is less a specific place — the movie was shot entirely in France — than it is the idea of “Hollywood.” The result is a familiar yet disembodied reality, akin to a fairy tale, in which characters act out a parable of our ugliest fears and desires.
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