REVIEWSetc.

The film opens with Léa Seydoux at a piano, playing a stilted, affecting cover of "Would I Lie to You". It is a beautiful choice and a precise one, because the question the song asks is the question the Gentle Monster will spend its runtime refusing to answer cleanly. We watched our seventh film of the fourth day at Cannes with the particular alertness of an audience that knows something terrible is coming and cannot look away from the ordinary life assembled in front of it,