Playtime has boarded international sales on Pierre Salvadori’s The Electric Kiss ahead of its world premiere as the opening film of the Cannes Film Festival.
The film was first announced earlier this year during the Unifrance Rendez-vous with Goodfellas on board as the sales agent.
Set in Paris in 1928, the film stars Pio Marmaï as Antoine Balestro, a painter at the height of his fame who has been unable to work since the death of his wife, Irène (Vimala Pons), much to the despair of his gallery owner, Armand (Gilles Lellouche).
One drunken evening, Antoine attempts to contact Irène through a psychic. Unbeknownst to him, he is in fact speaking with Suzanne (Anaïs Demoustier), a humble carnival worker. A gifted fraudster, Suzanne — helped by Armand, who is desperate for his protégé to paint again — stages a series of fake séances.
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