Léa Seydoux Premieres New Movie 'Gentle Monster' at Cannes Film Festival 2026, Cara Delevingne & Jordan Firstman Also Attend
The drama about a woman whose husband is arrested for child pornography drew strong applause as Léa Seydoux led the cast.
- On Friday night, Austrian director Marie Kreutzer premiered 'Gentle Monster' at the Cannes Film Festival, where the family drama received a six-minute standing ovation from the audience.
- Kreutzer decided to make the film after reading an article about a German pedophile ring, centering the story on Lucy, whose life is upended when police arrest her husband, Philip, on allegations of trading child sexual abuse images.
- French actor Lea Seydoux stars as the musician Lucy, while cinema icon Catherine Deneuve plays her fiercely independent mother; the film explores how people who love someone accused of such crimes deal with it.
- Gentle Monster is competing against 21 other films for the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or, which will be awarded on May 23.
- As one of the strongest competition titles at this year's festival, the film could factor into the international feature Oscar race, following Kreutzer's previous feature 'Corsage,' which represented Austria in 2022.
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Cannes entry 'Gentle Monster' tackles taboo with no easy answer, says director
CANNES, France, May 16 - Austrian director Marie Kreutzer recalled on Saturday it was difficult to make her Cannes Film Festival entry \"Gentle Monster,\" a family drama about the fallout from an investigation into child sexual abuse images that offers no easy answers. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Marie Kreutzer presented her new film "Gentle Monster" in Cannes. He is much more than just a coping with the Fall Teichtmeister.
The well-played drama "Gentle Monster" by Marie Kreutzer – with French star appearances and the future "Tatort" commissioner Laurence Rupp as a pedophile father – runs in the competition for the Golden Palme.
Léa Seydoux Premieres New Movie 'Gentle Monster' at Cannes Film Festival 2026, Cara Delevingne & Jordan Firstman Also Attend
Getty/Backgrid Léa Seydoux is at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival promoting her new movie! The 40-year-old French actress looked gorgeous as she attended the premiere of her movie Gentle Monster on Friday evening (May 15) held at Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France. Credit: Getty Fellow cast members Jella Haase, Laurence Rupp, and Catherine Deneuve joined Léa at the premiere along with director/writer Marie Kreutzer. Credit: Backgrid USA Other s…
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