A new film from Spanish siren Penelope Cruz will open the Cannes Film Festival on May 14.

Cruz plays a gypsy girl who dupes a handsome peasant into joining the French army in Gerard Krawczyk‘s “Fanfan La Tulipe,” a remake of a loopy swashbuckling comedy about a fictitious 18th-century hero.

There are already three versions of the film – the last one, the 1952 version starring Gina Lollobrigida, won a director’s award for Christian-Jaque at Cannes.

“Fanfan,” produced by Luc Besson, marks Cruz’s return to French-language features after Jacques Weber‘s 1998 “Don Juan,” in which she played one of the lover’s smitten victims.-