‘Gentle Monster’ Review: Léa Seydoux Brings Gravity to a Harrowing End-of-Family Drama
The film turns the Teichtmeister case into a family drama and includes tens of thousands of child pornography images, critics said.
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The Austrian Marie Kreutzer tells "Gentle Monster", in competition, the story of a mother who discovers that her husband would be at the heart of a network of images with child pornographyDo we really know our loved ones, the people with whom we share our life, or even our intimacy? That's the question Lucy (Léa Seydoux), a pianist-performer specializing in the deconstruction of pop titles (we'll see her working on Would I Lie to You, Charles & …
‘Gentle Monster’ Review: Cluttered Story Of A Family Torn Apart
In 2022, Austrian director Marie Kreutzer released Corsage, the excellent feminist re-reading of the life of 19th century Empress Elizabeth, known as Sissi, with Vicki Krieps as the eccentric, anorexic empress and Florian Teichtmeister as her philandering husband, Franz Joseph I. The following year, Teichtmeister was arrested and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography: […]
'Gentle Monster' Review: Léa Seydoux Ponders Moral Duties in Chilling, Emotional Drama
When you get down to it, there aren’t that many Big Themes. Man against Nature and Man against Self; first loves and last rites; coming of age and teenage sex and death. But, I suppose, as the years go by, I find myself most attuned to one particular concern: How do you be? How do you trust and treat others, keeping an open heart in a world primed to crush it? I think about this often — as I imagine we all do — but rarely with such focus as over…
Autrichian Marie Kreutzer dissecutes the collapse of a family that discovers the accusations of child criminality against the husband. Léa Seydoux shines in the role of Lucy, who confronts this deflagration, and seems to be competing for a price of interpretation.
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