Overview
- Netflix released the first teaser trailer Tuesday ahead of the film’s Canadian premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
- The official synopsis says concert pianist Lucy must protect her son and confront how little she knows her husband after a police raid accuses him of an unspeakable crime.
- Marie Kreutzer wrote and directed the film, which premiered in competition at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival and stars Léa Seydoux with Jella Haase, Laurence Rupp, and Catherine Deneuve.
- Netflix will open Gentle Monster in select theaters on October 30 and begin streaming it on November 18 in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
- Critics praised the film’s measured, non-sensational handling of difficult subject matter and Seydoux’s performance, and coverage links the project to a 2023 Austrian scandal that influenced Kreutzer’s approach, which could shape awards attention and wider public conversation.