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The Electric Kiss review
Pierre Salvadori’s whimsical period farce about a fake medium and a grief-stricken painter has charm and elegance, but its romantic fantasy never quite ignites
TL;DR
- A fake spiritualist pretends to contact the dead lover of a grieving artist.
- The artist's agent orchestrates the deception to inspire the painter's creativity.
- The fake medium, Suzanne, uses contact lenses and studies the deceased lover's diaries.
- Suzanne begins to fall in love with the artist, Antoine.
- Lengthy flashbacks about the deceased lover, Irène, are used to reveal secrets.
- The film is compared to mid-period Woody Allen and Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit.
- The film's charm and elegance are present, but the romantic fantasy does not fully ignite.