‘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
Variety | 13.05.2026 03:00
When you consider all the care and taste and politics and planning that go into the yearly execution of the Cannes Film Festival, you’d think that coming up with a tasty and satisfying opening-night film — a movie that delights, or at least pleases, the festival audience, stoking its appetite for the treasures to come — would not require the French equivalent of rocket science. The opening-night selection needn’t be the best film in the festival; it hardly needs to be a major film. But surely it should be an inviting one.
