52 FILMS BY WOMEN: #21 The Substance (2024) [USA] by Coralie Fargeat
An actress at the precipice of her career’s decline is offered the Fountain of Youth and one dose of “The Substance.” This incredible piece of cinema by writer, director, and editor Coralie Fargeat is so much more than you’d expect from a feminist middle finger to aging and the underbelly of Hollywood’s misogyny—or any career,…
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A L’Interieur (Inside) (2007) FRANCE
“Mano y Mano” takes a back seat to “La Femme contre La Femme” What could have been be a slow moving tragic tale of death and birth becomes the most treacherous tale of cat and mouse in the French horror A L’Interieur. Directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, this sadistic tale of envy stars…
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