GB, USA, FR 2024 | Director, screenplay: Coralie Fargeat | Camera: Benjamin Kračun | Editing: Coralie Fargeat, Jérôme Eltabet, Valentin Feron | Music: Raffertie (Benjamin Stefanski) | Sound: Emmanuelle Villard, Valérie Deloof, Stéphane Thiébaut | Cast: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid | Production: Tim Bevan, Coralie Fargeat, Eric Fellner | Colour | DCP | 140 min | english OV with german SUB | mubi
Demi Moore shines as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-list actress turned fitness instructor who is suddenly fired from her own fitness TV show by the obnoxious TV boss Harvey (Dennis Quaid). She seizes the opportunity offered by a mysterious new drug: The Substance. A single injection is all it takes and she is reborn - temporarily - as a beautiful twenty-something named Sue (Margaret Qualley). The only rule? They have to share time: exactly one week in one body, then one week in the other. No exceptions. The perfect balance. What could go wrong? Director Coralie Fargeat's wildly entertaining and ruthlessly satirical film sensation pokes fun at the toxic cult of beauty and tells a story for the ages about being careful what you wish for. (Final Girls Berlin)
| Acronyms | |
|---|---|
| amer. | American English |
| b/w | Black and white |
| OV | Original version |
| SUB | Subtitles |
| +SUB | electronic live subtitling (below the image) |
| INT | Intertitles |
| Countries | |
|---|---|
| AT | Austria |
| FRG | Federal Republic of Germany (historic) |
| BLR | Belarus |
| DE | Germany |
| CAN | Canada |
| GDR | German Democratic Republic (historic) |
| EGY | Egypt |
| FR | France |
| GB | Great Britain |
| URY | Uruguay |
| BRA | Brasil |
| SWE | Sweden |
| UKR | Ukraine |
| PL | Poland |
| IDN | Indonesia |
| PRT | Portugal |
| HRV | Croatia |
| ECU | Ecuador |
| HUN | Hungary |
| AUS | Australia |
| IT | Italy |
| MEX | Mexico |
| IND | India |
Introduction by Sara Neidorf, Final Girls Berlin Film Fest
Sara Neidorf (they/them) is a Philadelphia-born, Berlin-based drummer and film curator. They are the co-founder and co-director of Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, which features horror films made by women and non-binary filmmakers. When not organizing Final Girls Berlin, they are playing drums in various bands, including Mellowdeath, Sarattma, Mad Kate | The Tide, and Pavone Cristallo, and also teaching the drums to women and queers. They also play drums in theater, dance, and other interdisciplinary contexts. Lately they are merging their passions for film and music by performing original live scores to horror movies with Pavone Cristallo and Mellowdeath, and they're also writing cinephilia infused autofiction. Whether through music, writing, or film curation, they enjoy exploring tensions, crevices, the crepuscular, the cursed, the unsavory, and the uncanny.
