Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. She’s presented with a last-ditch solution: “The Substance”, a Brat summer-green …
Would you take a miracle drug that guaranteed eternal youth? This is the Faustian bargain that powers The Substance: French director Coralie Fargeat's fantastically nasty, proudly gaudy piece of body horror that instantly cleaved audiences into loud, warring factions at its Cannes premiere earlier this year – and then won the festival's best screenplay award. Director Coralie Fargeat creates a …