The Substance

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The Substance

Friday 25 October 2024 - Thursday 31 October 2024

Cinema

Deliriously entertaining and ruthlessly satirical, Coralie Fargeat’s Cannes sensation, The Substance, turns toxic beauty culture inside out.

Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister past her prime and suddenly fired from her fitness TV show by repellent studio head Harvey (Dennis Quaid).

She is then drawn to the opportunity presented by a mysterious new drug: The Substance.

All it takes is one injection and she is reborn – temporarily – as the gorgeous, twentysomething Sue (Margaret Qualley).

The only rule? Time needs to be split: exactly one week in one body, then one week in the other. No exceptions. A perfect balance. What could go wrong?

Explosive, provocative and twisted, The Substance marks the arrival of a thrillingly visionary filmmaker.

‘The Substance should really be put out on VHS cassettes and watched at home in homage to the great era of home entertainment pulp and video-store masterpieces of weirdness’ The Guardian ★★★★☆

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Certificate: 18

Length: 155 minutes

Director: Coralie Fargeat

Cast: Dennis Quaid, Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley

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Dates and times

Friday 25 October 2024 | 4:30 pm

Saturday 26 October 2024 | 7:30 pm

Thursday 31 October 2024 | 7:30 pm

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