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.” 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 11 July at the Cameo Cinema.
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