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Coralie Fargeat’s Cannes Breakout ‘The Substance’ Starring Demi Moore & Margaret Qualley To Close Edinburgh Film Festival’s Midnight Madness


Coralie Fargeat’s Cannes breakout stars Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.

The festival recently announced a special Midnight Madness preview screening of Chris Nash’s arthouse slasher In A Violent Nature on Thursday 11 July at the Cameo Cinema. “Having experienced the legendary Midnight Madness premiere of Coralie Fargeat’s ferocious debut Revenge at Toronto a few years back, I am truly honored that our first ever Midnight Madness strand at EIFF will close out with her wildly entertaining second film The Substance,” said EIFF director Paul Ridd. “It’s hard to describe this masterpiece, but if we said that it somehow fuses David Cronenberg, Brian Yuzna, and Sunset Boulevard into a completely unique, sensory attack on hypocrisy and sexism, then that would only go half-way to describing the wild thrills that await the willing and the eager.

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