Film review: ‘THE SUBSTANCE’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
French writer/ director Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance disturbingly updates Oscar Wilde’s The Picture Of Dorian Gray and adds a smattering of Showgirls for a gruesome body horror satire of Hollywood, the beauty industry and the damaging expectations placed on women. In an unsettlingly appropriate piece of casting, Demi Moore plays celebrity aerobics trainer Elisabeth Sparkle who hosts a successful Jane
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