It reads: “Have you ever ever dreamed of a greater model of your self? It is best to do that new product: The Substance. It modified my life. With The Substance, you may generate one other model of your self: youthful, extra lovely, extra good… Simply share the time. One week for one, one week for the opposite. An ideal steadiness of seven days. Straightforward, isn’t it? Should you observe the directions, what may go flawed?”
We additionally know that Demi performs Elisabeth Sparkle, a 50-year-old star of an aerobics present, who’s fired from her job on her birthday because of her age. She is then approached by a laboratory who supply her an injectable “substance” which is able to make her the “greatest model” of herself – “youthful, extra lovely, extra good”. Margaret performs a youthful model of Elisabeth, Sue.
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Becoming a member of Margaret and Demi shall be Dennis Quaid (aka the dad in The Father or mother Lure), who performs the misogynistic producer who fires Elisabeth. Hugo Diego Garcia, Matthew Géczy, Joseph Balderrama, Oscar Lesage and Gore Abrams may also star.
The Substance launch date
After its premiere at Cannes Movie Pageant, we’re ready on a UK launch date – will probably be launched within the US on 20 September, although, so we’re hoping it will come to the UK across the similar time.
The Substance trailer
There is not a full trailer but, however watch the teaser clip beneath:
What have evaluations mentioned thus far about The Substance?
A evaluate kind The Hollywood Reporter has praised the film’s assault of magnificence requirements and Hollywood and the way each “lure” girls.
“Fargeat combines sci-fi components with physique horror and satire to indicate how girls are trapped by the twin forces of sexism and ageism,” the evaluate reads. “Magnificence and youth are the targets on the coronary heart of this movie, however the director additionally takes purpose at Hollywood’s ghoulish machinations and the compulsive bodily and psychological intrusiveness of cisgender heterosexual males.”
British Vogue has referred to as it “a gonzo, breathless descent into the abyss” – signal us up.
