Netflix announced that Gentle Monster, a movie first premiered at Cannes Film Festival, will be coming to select theaters October 30th and streaming services after on November 18th. The movie stars Lea Seydoux (Blue is The Warmest Colour) as Lucy, a concert pianist who returns home to get rid of the stress of her husband but is eventually met with another dilemma that involves her husband being arrested.

The movie is written and directed by Marie Kreutzer (Corsage) and in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter she touches on certain aspects in the film. When asked about what inspired her for the film, Kreutzer said, “For me, it’s all about power and wanting to dominate someone, to be above someone. I was inspired by a newspaper article that I read during COVID, while I was still preparing two other films, one of them being Corsage. It was great journalism, and it really haunted me. I couldn’t even finish it in a day, because it was extremely explicit. I just felt that the only thing I could do was to tell a story about this issue, this problem that we, as a society, don’t really know how to deal with.”