Coralie Fargeat’s Cannes Breakout ‘The Substance’ Starring Demi Moore & Margaret Qualley To Close Edinburgh Film Festival’s Midnight Madness

Zac Ntim

11 June 2024 at 6:00 am·1-min read

Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance – one of the breakout films of this year’s Cannes Film Festival – will close the new Midnight Madness strand at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival [EIFF].

The ambitious body horror stars Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid and is billed as a “ruthless satire on female body standards and the toxic beauty myth.”

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The EIFF screening will serve as the film’s UK premiere. MUBI will release the film in the UK at a later date.

EIFF’s brand new Midnight Madness strand will run throughout the festival in August. The festival recently announced a special Midnight Madness preview screening of Chris Nash’s arthouse slasher In A Violent Nature on Thursday, July 11 at the Cameo Cinema. The full EIFF programme will launch on Wednesday, July 10, with tickets going on sale on Thursday, July 11.

“Having experienced the legendary Midnight Madness premiere of Coralie Fargeat’s ferocious debut Revenge at Toronto a few years back, I am truly honored that our first ever Midnight Madness strand at EIFF will close out with her wildly entertaining second film The Substance,” said EIFF director Paul Ridd.

“It’s hard to describe this masterpiece, but if we said that it somehow fuses David Cronenberg, Brian Yuzna, and Sunset Boulevard into a completely unique, sensory attack on hypocrisy and sexism, then that would only go half-way to describing the wild thrills that await the willing and the eager. Bring it on.”

EIFF runs from August 15 to August 21.

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