Cannes 2024 Review: THE SUBSTANCE, One of the Year's Best Genre Movies
Without much expectation – because Revenge, director Coralie Fargeat's debut film, wasn’t as thrilling to me as to most genre cinema specialists – I went to a night screening of The Substance at the Cannes International Film Festival. The decision was a very pleasant surprise, like a shot of adrenaline that lasted almost two and a half hours, given that the movie is stylish – constant closeups, energetic editing, loud sound – and quite intense from beginning to end, funny, grotesque, and over-the-top. The Substance attracted me right away because it belongs to the traditional cinema about Hollywood and its dark and cold side (The Congress, Maps to the Stars): we see the static camera pointing at the star on the Walk of Fame of... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
Without much expectation – because Revenge, director Coralie Fargeat's debut film, wasn’t as thrilling to me as to most genre cinema specialists – I went to a night screening of The Substance at the Cannes International Film Festival. The decision was a very pleasant surprise, like a shot of adrenaline that lasted almost two and a half hours, given that the movie is stylish – constant closeups, energetic editing, loud sound – and quite intense from beginning to end, funny, grotesque, and over-the-top. The Substance attracted me right away because it belongs to the traditional cinema about Hollywood and its dark and cold side (The Congress, Maps to the Stars): we see the static camera pointing at the star on the Walk of Fame of...
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