{"id":2265326,"date":"2026-02-03T20:43:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2265326"},"modified":"2026-02-03T20:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:43:41","slug":"saccharine-review-midori-francis-navigates-the-hallucinatory-minefield-between-body-image-and-body-horror-in-messy-weight-loss-freakout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/saccharine-review-midori-francis-navigates-the-hallucinatory-minefield-between-body-image-and-body-horror-in-messy-weight-loss-freakout\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Saccharine\u2019 Review: Midori Francis Navigates the Hallucinatory Minefield Between Body Image and Body Horror in Messy Weight-Loss Freakout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">There\u2019s nothing sweet about <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt35050712\/\">Saccharine<\/a>, but just as it should be gaining traction, nothing terribly coherent about it either. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4013000\/\">Natalie Erika James<\/a> throws a bunch of great ideas into her fem-horror riff on body dysmorphia, shame and the tireless quest for physical perfection in a culture obsessed with youthful hotness \u2014 following in the path of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt17526714\/\">The Substance<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0614682\/\">Ryan Murphy<\/a>\u2019s latest dollop of high-gloss trash, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt33517752\/\">The Beauty<\/a>. But the storytelling goes haywire, to the point where you\u2019re unsure what the Australian writer-director wants to say, though her game lead, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6377764\/\">Midori Francis<\/a>, keeps you watching.<\/p>\n<p>James\u2019 visually stylish film, acquired by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0741759\/\">IFC<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0602021\/\">Shudder<\/a> ahead of its Midnight bow at Sundance, has some originality thanks to a subtle grounding in the Buddhist\/Taoist folk tradition of the hungry ghost. But James never commits fully enough to the spiritual\/supernatural side to add much dimension to the confused narrative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s nothing sweet about Saccharine, but just as it should be gaining traction, nothing terribly coherent about it either. Natalie Erika James throws a bunch of great ideas into her fem-horror riff on body dysmorphia, shame and the tireless quest for physical perfection in a culture obsessed with youthful hotness \u2014 following in the path [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2265327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2265326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018Saccharine-Review-Midori-Francis-Navigates-the-Hallucinatory-Minefield-Between-Body.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265328,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265326\/revisions\/2265328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2265327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}