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Playtime has boarded world income connected Pierre Salvadori’s The Electric Kiss ahead of its world premiere arsenic nan opening movie of nan Cannes Film Festival.
The movie was first announced earlier this twelvemonth during nan Unifrance Rendez-vous pinch Goodfellas connected committee arsenic nan income agent.
Set successful Paris successful 1928, nan movie stars Pio Marmaï arsenic Antoine Balestro, a creator astatine nan tallness of his fame who has been incapable to activity since nan decease of his wife, Irène (Vimala Pons), overmuch to nan despair of his assemblage owner, Armand (Gilles Lellouche).
One drunken evening, Antoine attempts to interaction Irène done a psychic. Unbeknownst to him, he is successful truth speaking pinch Suzanne (Anaïs Demoustier), a humble carnival worker. A talented fraudster, Suzanne — helped by Armand, who is hopeless for his protégé to overgarment again — stages a bid of clone séances.
Gradually, Antoine regains his inspiration but nan deception grows progressively analyzable arsenic Suzanne finds herself falling successful emotion pinch nan man she is deceiving…
Salvadori co-wrote nan screenplay pinch Benjamin Charbit and Benoît Graffin, based connected an original thought by Rebecca Zlotowski (A Private Life) and Robin Campillo (BPM).
The movie is produced by Les Films Pelléas, nan accumulation institution down 2 Palmes d’Or winners astatine Cannes, Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall (2023) and Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident (2025). Philippe Martin serves arsenic shaper and David Thion arsenic subordinate producer.
Co- producers see Sandrine Dumas for Pio & Co (Paris), Jacques-Henri Bronckart and Tatjana Kozar for Versus Production (Belgium), and Pierre Salvadori nether his Tovo Films banner, pinch nan information of France 2 Cinéma.
Distributor Diaphana will merchandise nan movie theatrically successful France simultaneously pinch its world premiere connected 12 May.
“With Venus, Pierre Salvadori delivers 1 of his finest films, firmly placing himself successful nan awesome contented of classical romanticist comedies. Having collaborated pinch a filmmaker for complete 30 years, for whom nan connection of drama is truthful instinctive, is 1 of nan top joys of my master life. And knowing that this activity will beryllium brought to nan world by Playtime is awesome news,” said Martin.
Playtime Managing Director Sébastien Beffa added: “Great romanticist comedies are fewer and acold between. When 1 delivers connected each its promises, pinch a awesome head astatine nan helm and a beardown accumulation squad down it, there’s nary hesitation – Playtime came connected committee arsenic soon arsenic it was offered nan film.”
