Slim, a production company based in Venice, has signed fashion and beauty director Lorenzo Cisi for spot and branded content representation in the American ad market. Slim becomes his first career production house roost in the U.S.
Cisi is a native of Italy who currently resides in London. He has an inventive and imaginative approach to his filmmaking, and often explores contrasting visual techniques and processes. His background in film, VFX, editing and fashion make him a particularly well-rounded directorial talent. Among his recent credits are spots for Maison Margiela, Italian athletic and apparel company Diadora, YSL and Dior Homme. Both his Bally commercial and short film Two of a Kind for Lurve Magazine were nominated for honors at fashion film festivals in Berlin and Milan in 2018.
Tom Weissferdt, Slim owner/EP, said, “Lorenzo brings a singular perspective to each project he directs. I am confident that his skills and background in fashion will easily translate to a wider market here in the United States.”
Cisi views Slim as providing “a great chance to bring my projects to the next level, develop my style experimenting with new formats and collaborating with extraordinary talents in the filmmaking industry.”
Slim’s other directors have been busy of late: ZCDC (Zack Canepari and Drea Cooper) directed Flint Town, a series for Netflix, about the police department in Flint, Mich., that broke in March 2018. Also, Slim picked up two Bronze Lions at this year’s Cannes Festival for the Harry’s Razors film A Man Like You.
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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