Léa Seydoux Sits Down With VF in Telluride

Plus: Ten Years of 'La La Land'

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September 6, 2026

Gentle Monster isn’t an easy watch. The awards contender from Netflix, which made its US premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, details the suffering inflicted on a family when its patriarch is accused of possessing child sex abuse materials. Léa Seydoux—of James Bond and Dune fame—plays the wife of the accused, telling Vanity Fair’s Rebecca Ford, “I like films that are a bit crazy, I would say.” They also cover her other three (!) films at Telluride, The Unknown, a dark, unsettling body-swap thriller and Alpha Gang, a broad, silly alien-invasion comedy. It’s a great discussion. While Rebecca and other VF staffers enjoy the crisp Colorado air, still more members of our team remain in Venice, Italy, where the town’s eponymous film festival is in full swing. The other night, for example, Chris Murphy hunkered down in the bar of the Gritti Palace alongside Bucking Fastard stars Kate Mara and Orlando Bloom for the inaugural Cartier Cinema Club dinner held to honor the tenth anniversary of La La Land. His conversation with those luminaries, as well as La La Land director Damien Chazelle and Adults star Owen Thiele, is below.

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HOLLYWOOD   Léa Seydoux Made Four Films in a Year. It Finally Made Her Feel Like an Actor.   By Rebecca Ford   At Telluride, the French star talks about her breakneck year, from a body-swap thriller to an alien comedy, and why acting has always been her way of proving she exists. Read more

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HOLLYWOOD   Damien Chazelle’s La La Land Celebrates a Decade of Enchantment in Venice   By Chris Murphy   Damien Chazelle’s Oscar-winning musical gets a starry anniversary celebration in Venice, with Amal Clooney, Orlando Bloom, Kate Mara, and many more. Read more

CELEBRITY   Jane Fonda Says the Hollywood Blacklist Still Exists—But She Doesn’t Fear Donald Trump   By Valentina Colosimo   At 88 years old, with two Oscars and a lifetime spent on the front lines, the actor returns to Venice for Diane von Furstenberg’s DVF Awards. Read more

POLITICS   Pete Hegseth’s Reign of Chaos Is Roiling the Pentagon. Is It a Prelude to 2028?   By Aidan McLaughlin   The secretary of defense is not beloved within his castle—or indeed out in the land. Yet those around him are talking about a White House bid. How? Why? Really? Read more

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NEWS   The Lindsay Clancy Triple-Murder Case Has Ended in a Mistrial   By Savannah Walsh   Clancy had been on trial for first-degree murder after strangling her three young children, while suffering from what her lawyers argued was severe undiagnosed postpartum psychosis. Read more

TELEVISION   A Killer Story: Before We Had Social Media Sleuths, This Couple Made Solving One Crime Their Whole Life   By Dan Adler   The online frenzy surrounding Lindsay Clancy and Bryan Kohberger has taken the age-old interest in the morbid and murderous to new heights. A new HBO documentary series takes on a genuinely confounding Kansas case—and offers an intimate, discomfiting look at the obsession it bred. Read more

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