When beauty standards demand scalpels, who decides what's perfect?
A story about people who reinvent their ideals of perfection to incorporate a sensual attraction to surgically transformed bodies.
Practical Effects
Body horror effects that squirm under prosthetic perfection
Direction
Conceição's sterile gaze makes surgery feel erotic and wrong
Costume
Modified bodies as wearable art, grotesque and gorgeous
Director
Carlos Conceição
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Conceição channels early Cronenberg through a Portuguese lens, reflecting EU anxieties about medical tourism and aesthetic surgery tourism.
Elina Löwensohn's casting bridges 90s Hal Hartley indie cinema to this body horror revival, her deadpan delivery making Dr. Pollard's philosophy feel seductively reasonable.
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