The Substance dir. Coralie Fargeat (2024)

Picture a small, local café or diner. You are obliged to sit at a table, alone, for a whole day. The only thing on that table, is a glass of water. If you drink from the glass in the morning, it contains less water in the afternoon. But, if you drink from—or spill—the glass in the afternoon, the action doesn’t change the amount of water that was in the glass that morning. This is the nature of…