Overview
- - The Cannes competition title, which premiered late Friday, earned a six‑minute standing ovation and immediate attention for Léa Seydoux’s lead performance.
- - Marie Kreutzer’s drama follows a woman reeling after police arrest her husband over child sexual abuse images, focusing on the fallout for family and those investigating the case.
- - Early reviews praise Seydoux and the film’s emotional rigor, while several critics fault added subplots such as the lead investigator’s family strand and call the structure cluttered.
- - Kreutzer says she began writing years before the Teichtmeister revelations, yet coverage continues to frame the film against that scandal and the impact it had on her prior feature, Corsage.
- - Festival chatter now centers on Seydoux as a best actress contender and on where the Austria–France–Germany co‑production might land for distribution and awards submission.