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, \u201cDarling, I feel that something is wrong.\u201d In the next scene, the shirtless father\/son-in-law answers the door and is told: \u201cWe have a warrant. We\u2019d like to come in.\u201d<\/p>\n
The tone, and a family\u2019s future, has changed.<\/p>\n
L\u00e9a Seydoux stars in the Cannes-premiering Gentle Monster as Lucy, an experimental pianist who moves with her beloved but panic attack-liable husband Philip (Laurence Rupp) and young son to a rural farmhouse in Bavaria. Life seems swell until a special unit of big-city police led by Detective K\u00fchn (Jella Haase) swoop in an seize Philip\u2019s device. As expected, they find and seize thousand of images of child pornography \u2014 and his double life is exposed.<\/p>\n
Catherine Deneuve<\/a> plays Lucy\u2019s mother in the feature from writer-director Marie Kreutzer.<\/p>\n As Deadline noted in our review<\/a> of the film that played In Competition on the Croisette, in 2022, Austrian director Kreutzer released Corsage<\/a>, starring Vicky Krieps as the 19th century Empress Elizabeth and Florian Teichtmeister as her philandering husband, Franz Joseph I. The following year, Teichtmeister was arrested and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography: 76,000 files spread over 22 devices. He received a suspended sentence, which outraged many Austrians horrified by the crime committed by a prominent cultural figure. Inevitably, Kreutzer\u2019s film was tarnished by association and even withdrawn from cinemas. <\/p>\n