Anaïs Demoustier and Gilles Lellouche manipulate Pio Marmaï: trailer for The Electric Venus
Vimala Pons is also casting the new film by Pierre Salvadori, the director of En liberté!, which will open the Cannes Film Festival.
After the black comedy The Second Act and the musical Leave one dayit is a romantic comedy which will open the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, and will be released simultaneously in cinemas, as is the rule, on May 12. The Electric Venus is also a period film, which takes us back to the Paris of the Roaring Twenties, with a cast bringing together the cream of French cinema.
Director Pierre Salvadori stars Pio Marmaï (their fourth collaboration!) in the role of a painter who has been depressed since the death of his wife (Vimala Pons). One drunken evening, he turns to a clairvoyant to communicate with her, but comes across a simple opportunistic carnival, Anaïs Demoustier. With the help of her friend and gallery owner, played by Gilles Lellouche, she will manipulate the artist and the man to help him find inspiration and a taste for life.
Obviously, this imposture will involve its protagonists in an inextricable spiral, while Demoustier’s character slowly falls in love with that of MarmaÏ. The trailer for The Electric Venus promises a film rich in comic situations and emotions. We also sense a reflection on the birth of cinema, inseparable from the world of the funfair, and the art of lying.
“In its own way, my film carries all the belief and all the love that I have for my profession. I’m so proud and happy that he’s opening the ball!“, declared Pierre Salvadori when announcing the choice of The Electric Venus in the opening film.
The trailer for The Electric Venus :
