“I love you so much it hurts!” Netflix debuted the main official trailer for Gentle Monster, an unsettling thriller film ready to view starting in November in the fall. Not one of my favorites from this year – Gentle Monster first premiered at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. From Austrian filmmaker Marie Kreutzer, this disconcerting child abuse drama is about a pianist whose life unravels when the police come to arrest her husband. When a police raid shatters her life, a concert pianist must protect her son and confront how little she knows her husband after he is arrested for an unspeakable crime – yep he is actually a pedophile. She uncovers this life-shattering truth that forces her to confront the complexities of love, trust, and deception. Léa Seydoux stars as Lucy Weiss, along with Laurence Rupp, Jella Haase, and Catherine Deneuve. Featuring music by Camille. The film switches between German, French, and English conversations all the time, which doesn’t really work well, but so be it. I wish this was better at exploring any of the tricky topics it wants to get into, but this really fails at discussing anything. An extra empty, meaningless movie to ignore.
Here’s the main official trailer for Marie Kreutzer’s film Gentle Monster, direct from Netflix’s YouTube:
You can rewatch teaser trailer for Marie Kreutzer’s Gentle Monster film right here for the first look again.
From writer/director Marie Kreutzer, this tells the story of concert pianist Lucy (Léa Seydoux), who has just relocated her family to a country house hoping to ease her husband Philip’s (Laurence Rupp) severe burnout. Before they have a chance to set up their new home, an early morning police visit tears their life apart… Trapped between the man she loves and the fear of what he may have done, Lucy must face the situation alone as her world unravels. Gentle Monster asks what we do when someone we love turns out to be someone we never really knew. Gentle Monster is written and directed by Austrian filmmaker Marie Kreutzer, also director of the films The Fatherless, Gruber is Leaving, We Used to Be Cool, The Ground Beneath My Feet, Vier, and Corsage previously. Produced by Alexander Gehr and Johanna Scherz. This first premiered at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Netflix releases Kreutzer’s Gentle Monster in select US theaters starting October 30th, 2026 and for streaming on Netflix on November 18th this fall.
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