Official Selection - Out of Competition · 47th Edition
Gentle Monster
GENTLE MONSTER
Director
Marie Kreutzer
Country
Austria, Germany, France, Sweden
Runtime
1 h 54 min
Language
German, French, English
Synopsis
Lucy, a concert pianist, relocates her family from the city to a country house in hopes of easing her husband Philip’s severe burnout. Before they can settle in, an early morning police visit shatters their world. Isolated and desperate to protect her young son, Lucy must face the crisis alone, trapped between the man she loves and the terrifying suspicion of what he may have done.
Cast
Léa Seydoux, Catherine Deneuve, Jella Haase, Sylvester Groth
Screenplay
Marie Kreutzer.
Producers
Film AG
About the Director
Born in Graz in 1977, she is one of Austria’s most established filmmakers. After graduating from an alternative school with an artistic focus, she studied screenwriting and dramaturgy at the Film Academy Vienna. Her first feature film, The Fatherless, premiered at the Berlinale in 2011, and she returned to the festival in 2019 with The Ground Beneath My Feet.
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