At the cultural center "Siguldas devons" you will be able to watch the RIGA IFF Collection film "The Gentle Monster".
The award-winning Kreutzer, who was loved by the audience as the author of the punk manifesto "Corset" about the empress Sissy (2022), shook the Cannes Film Festival with the anatomy of sexual predators, in which the actress Léa Seydoux shines. By cutting slowly and sharply, the director digs to the core: do we know those closest to us and can we protect our loved ones from those we don't know?
She is a pioneer of pop music deconstruction with sold-out concerts, he is a burned-out director trying to get back into the routine of television. Wanting to protect her family, Lucy decides to move to the outskirts with her husband Philip and their nine-year-old son and turn over a new page in marriage. Lucy's mother, a legendary pianist, is deliciously ironic about rural and family life, because it is the worst thing a woman can do to her career. One morning the police arrive and ask to confiscate the smart devices and computers, and Lucy's curtain on the known and the unknown falls. How could she live with a person she didn't know for years?
Curator's guide words: The film is like a flower bud of a poisonous plant - it slowly, as it flourishes along the leaf, reveals its potential for evil. The illusion of an idyll, which, shattering into pieces, awakens the age-old fear of trust, dissolves into love.
| Doux Monster | Directed by: Marija Kreitzer AT/DE/FR | 2026 | 113′ | fr/de/en | 16+
