Something’s very off in the trailer for Gentle Monster, with Léa Seydoux starring as a woman facing dark truths in her own home. And though the film’s absolutely not about the Korean eyewear brand, the director was inspired by the company’s name.
Written and directed by Marie Kreutzer, the film follows concert pianist Lucy (Seydoux) whose idyllic home life with her husband Philip (Laurence Rupp) and son is shattered when the police show up with a search warrant, accusing Phillip of a heinous crime. Forced to reckon with the accusations against the person she loves, Lucy has more than one lie to untangle, and her son to protect.
It’s a complicated film, thematically, for Kreutzer, whose 2022 film Corsage starred actor Florian Teichtmeister, who was charged for similar crimes. The director told The Hollywood Reporter in May 2026, “In the middle of that whole scandal and shit storm, I thought maybe I cannot make Gentle Monster anymore, because everyone will always make that connection. It didn’t take me very long until to realize that I might have to make it even more.”
From the trailer, we get a glimpse of director of photography Judith Kaufmann’s cinematography, music by Camille, and a powerful performance from Seydoux, who stars alongside Jella Haase and Catherine Deneuve.
Gentle Monster will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in September, before its release in select cinemas Oct. 30. The film will then be streaming on Netflix from Nov. 18.
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