Tag: Coralie Fargeat
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A Different Man Review: Definitely Different
A DIFFERENT MAN (2024) A Different Man is the adult fairy tale we didn’t know we needed. Instead of a big bad wolf to fear, it’s one’s projections that lead to despair and suffering. Imagine Ari Aster’s Beau is Afraid (2023), Charlie Kaufman’s Synechdoche, New York (2008), Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024), a Cronenberg-ian biological…
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The Substance Review: Buyer beware
THE SUBSTANCE (2024) Hitchcock, Kubrick, De Palma, Lynch, Carpenter, Cronenberg, Aronofsky. All are masterful directors who boast distinct styles, are universally respected, and gave us iconic horror films. Director Coralie Fargeat is acutely aware of this as she litters The Substance with homages to these legends. Like Fargeat, I am also an enormous fan of…