Personal Shopper
Kristen Stewart and her Clouds of Sils Maria director Olivier Assayas team up again for this ethereal and mysterious ghost story. Stewart plays a high-fashion personal shopper to the stars who is also a spiritual medium. Grieving the recent death of her twin brother, she haunts his Paris home, determined to make contact with him. Winner of Best Director at Cannes 2016.
- Director:
- Olivier Assayas ('Clouds of Sils Maria', 'Something in the Air')
- Writer:
- Olivier Assayas
- Cast:
- Kristen StewartAnders Danielsen LieLars EidingerNora von WaldstättenSigrid BouazizTy OlwinHammou GraïaBenjamin Biolay
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Tony Stamp
flicksAt first glance Personal Shopper is a bit of a tonal mishmash, as we follow Kristen Stewart’s character Maureen through encounters in Paris both mundane and supernatural. It’s a character study that doubles as a ghost story, a fable about wealth, a pulp thriller, and involves a lot of scenes focused on text messaging. But primarily it’s about grieving for a loved one, and the ways that grief can manifest itself.
A well-acted but unoriginal iPhone-driven ghost story
Ambiguity in storytelling is a double-edged sword: it can mask a narrative that is unsure of itself or it can be a source of visual pleasure. It is used to some extent in all good filmmaking, offering imaginative pathways for viewers to bring their own interpretations to the story. But over-reliance on ambiguity is risky. The supernatural film Personal...
Variety
pressA broken, but never boring mix of spine-tingling horror story, dreary workplace drama and elliptical identity search, likely to go down as one of the most divisive films of Stewart's career.
Time Out
pressAmid all the shifting mirrored surfaces and hazy ambiguities of Olivier Assayas's bewitching, brazenly unconventional ghost story, this much can be said with certainty: Kristen Stewart has become one hell of an actress.
The Times
pressThink of an episode of Scooby-Doo, add product placement by Chanel, plus a soupçon of French existentialism, and you have some sense of the sheer bonkersness of Personal Shopper.
The Guardian
pressKristen Stewart's performance is tremendous: she is calm and blank in the self-assured way of someone very competent, smart and young, yet her displays of emotion are very real and touching.
Sydney Morning Herald
pressThe most interesting film in which the mysterious creature Kristen Stewart has appeared, and the oddest.
SBS
pressStewart is engrossing as the grieving twin and invisible employee whose own health issues make an early death a distinct possibility.
FilmInk
pressPart horror, psychological thriller, rom-com, art-house and content marketing for Chanel personafied by the never-better Kristen Stewart.
Flicks, Tony Stamp
flicksAt first glance Personal Shopper is a bit of a tonal mishmash, as we follow Kristen Stewart’s character Maureen through encounters in Paris both mundane and supernatural. It’s a character study that doubles as a ghost story, a fable about wealth, a pulp thriller, and involves a lot of scenes focused on text messaging. But primarily it’s about grieving for a loved one, and the ways that grief can manifest itself.
Variety
pressA broken, but never boring mix of spine-tingling horror story, dreary workplace drama and elliptical identity search, likely to go down as one of the most divisive films of Stewart's career.
Time Out
pressAmid all the shifting mirrored surfaces and hazy ambiguities of Olivier Assayas's bewitching, brazenly unconventional ghost story, this much can be said with certainty: Kristen Stewart has become one hell of an actress.
The Times
pressThink of an episode of Scooby-Doo, add product placement by Chanel, plus a soupçon of French existentialism, and you have some sense of the sheer bonkersness of Personal Shopper.
The Guardian
pressKristen Stewart's performance is tremendous: she is calm and blank in the self-assured way of someone very competent, smart and young, yet her displays of emotion are very real and touching.
Sydney Morning Herald
pressThe most interesting film in which the mysterious creature Kristen Stewart has appeared, and the oddest.
SBS
pressStewart is engrossing as the grieving twin and invisible employee whose own health issues make an early death a distinct possibility.
FilmInk
pressPart horror, psychological thriller, rom-com, art-house and content marketing for Chanel personafied by the never-better Kristen Stewart.
A well-acted but unoriginal iPhone-driven ghost story
Ambiguity in storytelling is a double-edged sword: it can mask a narrative that is unsure of itself or it can be a source of visual pleasure. It is used to some extent in all good filmmaking, offering imaginative pathways for viewers to bring their own interpretations to the story. But over-reliance on ambiguity is risky. The supernatural film Personal...
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