'Gentle Monster' review: Léa Seydoux is riveting in thorny social drama
Léa Seydoux plays a mother in crisis in “Gentle Monster.” The film from Austrian writer-director Marie Kreutzer is about pedophiles and sex pests lurking in plain sight. Laurence Rupp plays her partner and the father of her young child and is under investigation for child sex abuse and participating in online forums. In her review for The Associated Press, film writer Lindsey Bahr praises Seydoux's understated and searing performance, as well as the film's handling of a difficult topic.
Bahr writes that it is a film that wants you to question your own complicity. Rated R, “Gentle Monster” is in select theaters Friday.
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