Gia Coppola
Both The Substance and The Last Showgirl evaluate mortality by leaning on their respective stars’ relationship with celebrity in real life.
Pamela Anderson stars as an aging Las Vegas showgirl at a crossroads, after her acclaimed 30-year-show finally completes its run.
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.