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The Cannes Film Festival sewage underway coming successful emblematic very French manner pinch nan opening nighttime film, The Electric Kiss (La Venus Electrique), a very French romanticist drama of loss, grief, deception, and renewed emotion of life and art. Premiering retired of title nan 1928 Paris-set charmer comes from seasoned filmmaker Pierre Salvadori (After You , Priceless, Beautiful Lies) and serves arsenic a sweetly aged fashioned benignant of movie we person often seen coming from France, a crowd pleaser that could activity nicely for audiences, world and domestic, seeking a small flight from nan acheronian times that nary uncertainty will beryllium portrayed vividly astatine nan fest successful nan adjacent 11 days.
The title refers to down-on-her-luck carnival performer Suzanne (a terrific Anais Demoustier) who is nan attraction that lures men for a buss that gives disconnected a crisp electrical daze (thanks to down nan curtain wiring) meant to virtually show nan “electricity” of love. For her this has go a dormant extremity occupation that moreover has made her truthful hopeless she resorts to petty crime, moreover attempting to rob from her neighbour psychic. It is location she is really mistaken for the mean by sad sack grieving creator Antoine Balestro (Pio Marmaï ) who has fixed up his life unit and imaginative inspiration aft nan decease of his woman Irene (Vimala Pons) and has travel to this psychic successful nan hopes of connecting pinch her from beyond. Suzanne, seeing possibly an easy people passes herself disconnected arsenic conscionable nan personification who tin assistance his wife, and frankincense originates her phony broadside hustle,
Stumbling connected to this ruse , Antoine’s friend and head Armand (Gilles Lellouche) instantly tin show Suzanne is simply a clone and scolds her for exploiting his friend’s grief, but when sees these sessions really spark Antoine’s coating he changes his tune and teams up pinch Suzanne to support up nan disguise successful return for a portion of profits from Antoine’s caller useful and shows. It each gets very analyzable erstwhile existent life merges pinch flashbacks of his past life pinch Irene and a budding romance pinch – you guessed it- Suzanne.
All of this mightiness look nan look for axenic French farce, but Salvadori and his co-writers Benjamin Carbit and Benoit Graffin don’t spell for evident comic opportunities, particularly pinch decease and condolences an underlying theme. The drama present is much subtle, and nan reside much lushly romanticist and human. The actors are perfectly formed starting pinch Marmaï’s likeable Antoine, nan only subordinate present not being nan deceiver. He hits each nan correct notes, arsenic do nan 2 women successful his life, coming pinch Demoustier, and past pinch Pons whose domiciled is much developed that nan accustomed lawsuit of flashback performances. Lellouche, arsenic accustomed , is each pro and winning arsenic Armand.
A large positive present is nan ocular look of nan movie , pinch outcry outs to cinematographer Julien Poupard, accumulation designer Angelo Zamparutti, and nan awesome euphony people from Camille Bazbaz.
The Electric Kiss may not beryllium “electric” cinema itself, but arsenic a Cannes opener it does nan occupation and fits nan measure nicely.
Producer is Philippe Martin.
Title: The Electric Kiss
Festival: Cannes Film Festival (Opening Night Film)
Director: Pierre Salvadori
Screenplay: Benjamin Charbit, Benoit Graffin, Pierre Salvadori
Cast: Pio Marmaï , Anais Demoustier, Gilles Lellouche, Vimala Pons, Gustave Kervern, Madeleine Baudot
Running Time: 2 hours and 2 minutes
Sales Agent: Playtime
