Coralie Fargeat directs Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid in this body horror where an ageing star takes a miracle treatment that creates a younger version of herself.

This is what we want. Excess. Striking imagery. Exploited Hollywood stars. It all works but there is too much of it. Keep all the full fat gross out but firm up that pace. Moore’s cache is mined perfectly though I would be surprised if the Academy actually came knocking next spring. Qualley probably is under served in a near voiceless fake T&A role. So it isn’t perfect, when it cooks it overflows. The FX works is iconic nasty. Fargeat hits all those deep buttons that Moviedrome / Selectavideo installed in me. You could rattle off two dozen obvious influences in under a minute yet, like Tarantino, this exciting auteur mega mixes all the thefts into very much her own thing. Just like she did with Revenge. My young ass.

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