Just when you thought you've seen almost every permutation of the superhero mythos comes a French flick — premiering at this year's Cannes Film Festival — about revenge-mad automotive parts.

Move over, Weird Science and Lars and the Real Girl. Here's the trailer for Japanese art-film director Hirokazu Kore-eda's Air Doll, a lyrical Pygmalion tale that played Cannes last month and is due stateside later this year.