8 November 2024. By Neptune Here it is – the cruel reality of the price of fame and glory, and the pressure on women to be young and beautiful, especially in Hollywood. This film made a huge splash in Cannes, with a glamorous Demi Moore playing here a fading actress who realises she is losing her youth and her career as a TV aerobics instructor.
And she is only 50! When she accidentally learns that her show is being cancelled she becomes desperate. Hearing of a substance that promises to create a younger version of herself, she goes for it, however dangerous. And thus begins an incredible transformation.
There are touches of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, bits of Tinseltown’s ruthlessness and back-stabbing and shades of Norma Desmond (of “Sunset Boulevard”) in a shockingly modern allegory written and directed by the committed feminist, French-born Coralie Fargeat.
Here is a film the likes of which you have never seen – bold, exaggerated, cruel truths; excellent acting by Moore and her younger double, played by the lovely Margaret Qualley (daughter of Andie MacDowell), and a wonderfully caricatured Dennis Quaid. Its brilliant scenario, which turns extremely bloody and gory (you’ve been warned!), was deservedly crowned in Cannes with the award for Best Scenario. It will disturb and shake you, but you will not forget this film! The French are experts at all forms of love and romance and here’s an all too typical example.
It’s difficult to define this story by Emmanuel .
