‘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 from veteran filmmaker Pierre Salvadori (After You , Priceless, Beautiful Lies) and serves as a sweetly old fashioned kind of movie we have often seen coming from France, a crowd pleaser that could work nicely for audiences, international and domestic, seeking a little escape from the dark times that no doubt will be portrayed vividly at the fest in the next 11 days.

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