The Substance

Name: The Substance
Start: 2024-10-05T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-05T17:30:00-04:00
Location: Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema by WVIFF

Schedule

Sat Oct 05 2024 at 02:00 pm to 05:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema by WVIFF | Charleston, WV

Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister past her prime and suddenly fired from her fitness TV show by repellent studio head Harvey (Dennis Quaid).

She is then drawn to the opportunity presented by a mysterious new drug: THE SUBSTANCE. All it takes is one injection and she is reborn – temporarily – as the gorgeous, twentysomething Sue (Margaret Qualley).

The only rule? Time needs to be split: exactly one week in one body, then one week in the other. No exceptions. A perfect balance. What could go wrong?

Deliriously entertaining and ruthlessly satirical, Coralie Fargeat’s Cannes sensation turns toxic beauty culture inside out with a be-careful-what-you-wish-for fable for the ages. Explosive, provocative and twisted, THE SUBSTANCE marks the arrival of a thrillingly visionary filmmaker.
What the critics are saying:
This is a film unlike any other you will see right now. It will not be to everyone's taste. For this reviewer, who craves originality, it is a winner.
Stephen Romei The Australian
Fargeat delivers a macabre, funny, tragic, absurd and grotesque Grand Guignol of butts and guts; a bonkers and brutal “beauty horror” that elevates the genre to a hysterically unprecedented heights.
Katie Walsh Tribune News Service
Wickedly audacious and boldly over-the-top, "The Substance" is a biting, hilarious and stomach-churningly disgusting satire of modern beauty standards and Hollywood's obsession with youth, staged as a deranged midnight movie freak-out.
Adam Graham Detroit News