A piercing Cannes portrait of cruelty hiding in plain sight
TL;DR
Marie Kreutzer’s Gentle Monster delivers a blunt, unflinching drama about pedophilia and how abuse can lurk within intimate life. Following pianist Lucy Weiss after her husband’s arrest, the film probes truth, complicity, and the impossibility of easy moral judgments, anchored by Léa Seydoux’s restrained, devastating performance and Judith Kaufmann’s expansive widescreen visuals. It premiered at Cannes 2026 and is seeking U.S. distribution.
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