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"The Substance" is an extreme film - in terms of the colors, the effects, the make-up, the greasiness and the moments of shock. On an extreme scale of 1 to 10, French director and screenwriter Coralie Fargeat easily achieves a 12 here, before choking it all up to a 20 in the finale - in the truest sense of the word. But first things first.
Luc Besson used to stand for fresh, crowd-pleasing, yet stubborn cinema. A cinema from France that wasn't afraid to poach in the genre and that always strove to mix the depiction of reality with exaggerated stories and characters. But in recent years, the filmmaker's name has mainly stood for box office poison, bankruptcy, #MeToo and the feeling that he has probably left his best days as a director…
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