Cannes Opens With a Misfire: The Electric Kiss Fails to Enchant
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Variety’s Cannes opener The Electric Kiss is a glossy ’20s Paris romance about illusion and a fake psychic that mutates into a melodramatic, inert confection, lacking genuine magic despite stylish staging and a two-woman dynamic.
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