Pierre Salvadori (particularly acclaimed for The Trouble With You, which was unveiled in Directors’ Week 2018 and nominated for 2019’s Best Film César, among other awards) has been shooting his 11th feature film, The Electric Kiss, since 26 May.

Stand-out names in the cast include Pio Marmaï (nominated for the 2019 and 2022 Best Actor Césars thanks to The Trouble With You and The Divide, and for the Best Supporting Actor trophy in 2023 and 2024 via Rise and Yannick, and hitting French cinemas on 27 August in No One Will Know), Anaïs Demoustier (awarded 2020’s Best Actress César thanks to Alice and the Mayor, nominated Best Supporting Actress three times, including this year via The Count of Monte-Cristo) and Gilles Lellouche (nominated for the 2019 and 2022 Best Actors Césars via In Safe Hands and The Stronghold, and touring cinemas from 15 October in Chien 51). They’re joined by Vimala Pons (nominated for 2014’s Best Newcomer Lumière via The Rendez-Vous of Déjà Vu, recently at her best in Mikado and Vincent Must Die, among other works) and Gustave Kervern (reuniting with the director following In the Courtyard and hitting cinemas on 24 September via The Man Who Saw the Bear).

Written by the director in league with Benoît Graffin and Benjamin Charbit (the winning trio who scooped the 2019 Best Screenplay Lumière for The Trouble With You), the story takes us to Paris in the early 20th century. Convinced that he’s responsible for his wife’s death, in-vogue painter Antoine Balestro just can’t get back to work, to the despair of gallery owner Armand. One drunken evening, seeking forgiveness, Antoine tries to make contact with Irène by way of a medium. But he unwittingly finds himself dealing with a humble street entertainer called Suzanne who doesn’t know anything about the afterlife, having only snuck into the clairvoyant’s caravan to steal some food…

The Electric Kiss is being produced by Philippe Martin and David Thion on behalf of Les Films Pelléas (who’ve teamed up with Salvadori on all of his feature films since Wild Target in 1993), in co-production with France 2 Cinéma and Belgium’s Versus Production. Pre-purchased by Canal+, Ciné+/OCS and France Télévisions, the feature film also enjoys support in the form of an advance on receipts from the CNC, as well as from the Ile-de-France region, Wallimage, Pio & Co, and the SOFICA companies Cinéaxe, Cinécap, Indéfilms and Palatine. The movie’s ten-week film shoot will continue in Belgium (in Liège and the surrounding area), Paris and the Paris region until 1 August, with Julien Poupard (nominated for the 2020 and 2023 Césars in his speciality via Les Misérables and Forever Young) heading up cinematography. World sales are steered by Goodfellas and distribution in French cinemas by Diaphana.

For the record, Les Films Pelléas previously produced the 2025 and 2023 Palmes d’Or winners It Was Just An Accident by Jafar Panahi and Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Triet, among other works. They’re currently overseeing post-production on A Woman's Life by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet (toplined by Léa Drucker) and preparing If Love Should Die by Mia Hansen-Love.