The Celluloid Mirror is BACK with a slight format upgrade and a whole lot of movie discussion for you. Today Sean and Nicole are talking about Coralie Fargeat's Oscar-nominated body horror Hollywood / start-up satire The Substance, as well as Lars von Trier's long and unpleasant possible masterpiece Dogville. Both films are critiques of the United States specifically, by European directors who chose to shoot in their home countries (and took verrrrry different approaches to making their sets and locations look like America). But that's just a jumping off point to discussing what the two films reflect about gender, and the suffering of white women in particular under white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, and more. It’s Nicole Kidman vs Demi Moore! MAGA vs Hollywood! French LA vs chalk on a stage! 

The Making of The Substance Featurette (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H64HNvXrqU)

Coralie Fargeat's short film The Telegram (https://vimeo.com/45183427)

The Substance reviews on Letterboxd (https://letterboxd.com/film/the-substance/reviews/by/entry-rating/)

Dogville reviews on Letterboxd (https://letterboxd.com/film/dogville/reviews/by/entry-rating/)

Nicole's Letterboxd list of non-US directors making films about + set in the US that are shot elsewhere (https://letterboxd.com/nicolewitte/list/non-us-directors-making-films-outside-the/)

List of all TCM double features (https://letterboxd.com/nicolewitte/list/the-celluloid-mirror-double-features)

Our previous discussion of Lars Von Trier (https://www.patreon.com/posts/im-good-right-2-65216400)

Bonus TCM and much more at https://www.patreon.com/4milecircus

Music "Twisted" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License⁠http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/