Léa Seydoux Plays an Experimental Pianist in 'Gentle Monster'
Marie Kreutzer and Léa Seydoux took to the stage at Deadline's Contenders London event to discuss Gentle Monster, which Kreutzer wrote and directed. In it, Seydoux plays Lucy, an experimental pianist who moves with her husband Philip (Laurence Rupp) and their young son to a rural farmhouse in Bavaria. Philip is described as beloved and panic attack-liable, a lot of turbulence to install in a story that otherwise sounds so still: a new house, a small family, and a musician whose work depends on routine in a home where the other adult's days can turn without warning.
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It's a pressure cooker dressed as a retreat: a pianist who needs routine, a husband whose panic attacks won't grant it, and a remote Bavarian house.
It's also a well-worn art-house arrangement — city couple, country house, marriage tested. The panic attacks are the detail that might keep it from being only that.