THE SUBSTANCE

In the organizer's words:

GBR/USA/FRA 2024, Feature film, 142 min, FSK 16

Director: Coralie Fargeat

with: Demi Moore, Margret Qualley

Language: OmU (English with German subtitles)

Content Notes: 1, 8, 2

Elisabeth Sparkle used to be a star, but now she is fired from her own fitness TV show by station boss Harvey. She seizes the opportunity offered by a mysterious new drug: The Substance. All it takes is one injection and she is - temporarily - reborn as a flawless twenty-something. The only rule? She has to share the time: Exactly one week in the young body, then one week in the old one. Without exception.

Watch out, body horror! In every respect. Coralie Fargeat's relentlessly satirical sensation goes where it hurts and takes the sexist, toxic cult of beauty and youth under the knife. Never before has such an explicit film (the last 20 minutes are just crazy) attracted so much attention and won so many awards. And Demi Moore, herself a star of yesteryear for many, proves in the leading role that you can be a Hollywood superstar even as a sixty-year-old woman - or just become one again.

ENG: Elisabeth Sparkle used to be a star, but now she's fired from her own fitness TV show by channel boss Harvey. She seizes the opportunity offered by a mysterious new drug: The Substance.
Warning: body horror galore!!! Coralie Fargeat's satirical sensation goes where it hurts and takes the sexist, toxic cult of beauty and youth under the knife. Never before has such an explicit film (the last 20 minutes are just crazy) attracted so much attention and won so many awards. (English with German subtitles)

Price information:

- 7.00 € (regular) - 5.50 € (reduced*) - 3.50 € (with Leipzig Pass, disabled pass, volunteer pass) - Films longer than 130 min: + 1.00 € - Tickets are available online (plus € 0.70 booking fee), remaining tickets at the Box Office.