Léa Seydoux’s four-film retrospective comes to Los Angeles
American Cinematheque will present four films starring Léa Seydoux from November 12 to 15 across three Los Angeles venues. The French actor will join director Marie Kreutzer for a conversation accompanying Gentle Monster. The programme also includes One Fine Morning, Blue Is the Warmest Color and The Beast, drawing on her work with several directors.
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Four films across three venues
French actor Léa Seydoux will be the subject of a retrospective at American Cinematheque, the nonprofit Los Angeles film organisation. Running from November 12 to 15, the programme comprises four films and an appearance by Seydoux herself. She will discuss Gentle Monster with its director, Marie Kreutzer, at the Aero Theatre on November 13.[1], [2]
The opening screening is Mia Hansen-Løve’s One Fine Morning at Los Feliz 3 on November 12. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Color follows at the Egyptian Theatre on November 14. Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast concludes the series at Los Feliz 3 on November 15, after the Gentle Monster event on the intervening evening.[1]
A pianist confronts her partner’s secret
In Gentle Monster, Seydoux plays Lucy, a pianist who has moved to the countryside with her family. Her hopes for a fresh start are broken by a police visit and a revelation about her partner. She learns of his involvement in a network producing child sexual abuse material. The drama follows Lucy’s confrontation with that discovery.[1]
The film places questions of love, trust and deception within Lucy’s family life. Kreutzer’s conversation with Seydoux accompanies this particular work in the retrospective. The other three screenings draw on Seydoux’s collaborations with Hansen-Løve, Kechiche and Bonello; the four-film selection presents those separate roles within the same Los Angeles programme.[1]
A career in independent films and major productions
Seydoux’s screen career extends across roughly two decades. Alongside the independent films represented here, she has appeared in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune productions and two James Bond films. Blue Is the Warmest Color won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. The retrospective’s selection draws from her independent-film work rather than those larger franchise productions.[1]
American Cinematheque has supported theatrical filmgoing since 1985 and presents more than 2,000 films annually. It is supported by its members. Its retrospective programmes in the previous year included actors Timothée Chalamet and Michael B. Jordan. The Seydoux series is scheduled at the organisation’s Aero, Egyptian and Los Feliz venues.[1]
