THE SUBSTANCE

26 Sep

Written By Theatre Royal Castlemaine

RATING: R18+

DURATION: 2:20

DIRECTOR: Coralie Fargeat

STARRING: Dennis Quaid, Margaret Qualley, Demi Moore

Screening Times

Fri 4 Oct - 8:00pm

Sun 6 Oct - 6:30pm

Tue 15 Oct - 7:30pm

more session times soon…

Demi Moore delivers the performance of her career according to critics in Coralie Fargeat’s audacious Cannes Film Festival Best Screenplay award-winning body horror, THE SUBSTANCE. Moore's co-star Margaret Qualley is also ferociously formidable coming off of two similarly outlandish and bold roles in Yorgos Lanthimos' Oscar-winning ‘Poor Things’ and his twisted follow-up ‘Kinds Of Kindness’.

Elisabeth Sparkle (Moore), renowned for an aerobics show, faces a devastating blow on her 50th birthday when she is unceremoniously fired. Amid her distress, a laboratory offers her a black-market substance which promises to transform her into an enhanced version of herself (Qualley).

A frenzied and satirical body horror that's as clever as it is gory, THE SUBSTANCE adds a timely and viscerally confronting feminist spin on ageism and the toll of vanity.

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