Netflix has set the release calendar for Gentle Monster, the Marie Kreutzer drama starring Léa Seydoux, with a limited theatrical run starting October 30, 2026, followed by a streaming launch on November 18, 2026. The streamer confirmed the dates exclusively to Variety.

The film will be available to stream on Netflix in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand. That 19-day gap between theatrical and streaming — the theatrical window, the period a film plays exclusively in cinemas before hitting home platforms — is a familiar Netflix pattern for its awards-season titles.

Before either of those dates, Gentle Monster heads to the Toronto International Film Festival for its Canadian premiere. It already premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 15, 2026, where Netflix acquired it following its debut. Seydoux had a notably busy Cannes, premiering two films in the festival: Gentle Monster and The Unknown (IndieWire).

Seydoux plays Lucy, a concert pianist, opposite Laurence Rupp as her husband Philip. The cast also includes Jella Haase and Catherine Deneuve. The film was shot in Austria and Germany and is described as a drama about "trust and deception, love and violence" (The Hollywood Reporter).

Behind the camera is Marie Kreutzer, the Austrian writer-director whose previous feature Corsage was Austria's submission for the 95th Academy Awards. Kreutz both wrote and directed Gentle Monster. Seydoux, a fixture at Cannes, shared the 2013 Palme d'Or with director Abdellatif Kechiche and co-star Adèle Exarchopoulos for Blue Is the Warmest Color — one of the rare instances where the festival's top prize was awarded to performers as well as the director.

Variety's review from Cannes, written by Jessica Kiang, praised Seydoux's performance in the film.

What makes this release plan worth noting is the path from a Cannes premiere through Toronto and into a calibrated autumn corridor — the sequence festivals and distributors use to build word of mouth before year-end awards consideration. Netflix is giving Gentle Monster the same architecture it has applied to prestige titles it wants voters to remember, with a theatrical footprint that signals seriousness even if the audience for a European art-house drama on streaming is the real target.

For audiences outside the five launch markets, Netflix has not yet announced additional dates.