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Cannes Film Festival Opens with 'The Electric Kiss'

Updated 2026-05-12 20:20 UTC 2 sources Positive

The Cannes Film Festival opened on Tuesday with The Electric Kiss, a French romantic comedy set in 1928 Paris. The film premiered out of competition and received positive reviews.

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Variety

‘The Electric Kiss’ Review: Cannes Opens With a Thud — a ‘Light’ French Period Romance About an Artist and a Fake Psychic, but the Movie Is Inert

Salvadori has conceived "The Electric Kiss" as a film about fake magic, yet there’s no spirit of real magic underlying the fakery that’s supposed to be playful but is actually leaden.

2026-05-12 20:00 UTC

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‘The Electric Kiss’ Review: Opening Night Attraction Is A Lushly Designed And Charming French Period Comedy – Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival got underway Tuesday in typical very French fashion with the opening-night film, The Electric Kiss (La venus electrique), a very French romantic comedy of loss, grief, deception and renewed love of life and art. Premiering out of competition, the 1928 Paris-set charmer comes

2026-05-12 20:00 UTC