Léa Seydoux’s World Crumbles Around Her in Trailer for Critically-Acclaimed Drama Gentle Monster
Léa Seydoux plays a pianist forced to protect her son after a police raid exposes her husband’s alleged crime, according to the film’s synopsis.
- Netflix will release director Marie Kreutzer's thriller "Gentle Monster" in select theaters on October 30, with the film streaming on November 18, starring Léa Seydoux as a pianist confronting a domestic crisis.
- The project reflects Kreutzer's exploration of abuse, drawing parallels to her 2022 film Corsage, which starred Florian Teichtmeister before he pleaded guilty to possessing 76,000 child pornography files across 22 devices.
- Premiering at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, the drama features Seydoux, Jella Haase, Laurence Rupp, and Catherine Deneuve; critics praised Kreutzer's "unflinching approach to studying the ugly nuances of child sex abuse."
- Gentle Monster is scheduled for a Special Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival, billed as the film's Canadian Premiere, following its Cannes debut and preceding the Netflix release.
- Despite the difficult subject matter, the thriller remains one of the season's most anticipated works, with IndieWire's David Ehrlich describing it as "a study in how painful it can be" to uncover dark domestic mysteries.
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Léa Seydoux’s world crumbles around her in trailer for critically-acclaimed drama Gentle Monster
Read the original post on Flickering Myth here: Léa Seydoux’s world crumbles around her in trailer for critically-acclaimed drama Gentle Monster Netflix has released a teaser-trailer for one of their high-profile Cannes Film Festival acquisitions, Gentle Monster, which stars Léa Seydoux (Dune: Part Two) as a concert pianist whose life is thrown into disarray when her husband is accused of a heinous crime. Written and directed by Marie Kreutzer …
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'Gentle Monster' Trailer: Léa Seydoux Stars In Family Drama From Marie Kreutzer
At the start of the first teaser trailer for Gentle Monster, we see a montage of home video-style clips of a happy, loving family. That changes when a mother tells her daughter, “Darling, I feel that something is wrong.” In the next scene, the shirtless father/son-in-law answers the door and is told: “We have a […]
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