Director Cameron T. Duddy has joined the roster of production house DNA. He comes aboard following a string of popular music videos he directed for Bruno Mars, including “Gorilla,” “Lazy Song,” and videos for the entire album Unorthodox Jukebox. Duddy's video for Mars’ “Lazy Song” has earned upwards of 500 million views on YouTube, and following his work on Unorthodox Jukebox he was asked to creative direct Mars’ 2014 North American tour.
Prior to DNA, Duddy had been with BLVD Industries. His body of work also extends into advertising and fashion. He recently turned out campaigns for Donna Karan and DKNY featuring celebrity models Karlie Kloss and Cara Delevigne, as well as various PacSun Campaigns for the Jenner sisters’ clothing line, “Kendall & Kylie.” He also directed a Nintendo 3DS commercial shot entirely in 3D.
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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