Gia Coppola
Both The Substance and The Last Showgirl evaluate mortality by leaning on their respective stars’ relationship with celebrity in real life.
A young woman finds a path to internet stardom when she starts making videos with a charismatic stranger.
Mainstream hardly qualifies as a satisfactory, much less intelligent response to the media-saturated simulacra it lounges very comfortably within.
It was kind of odd coming of age in the early 2010’s and seeing these ultra-fantastic teen stories, yet Palo Alto proved to be in a league all its own.