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Personal Shopper

SHE CAME LOOKING FOR A SIGN…

American Maureen Cartwright (Kristen Stewart), who’s working in Paris as a personal shopper for a supermodel, is trying to communicate with her dead twin brother. Stewart and the director reunited after Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) for this drama-thriller. Maureen senses a presence, and we bear witness to it, but she’s also getting strange texts from an unidentified person. The film is part mystery where Stewart is drawn into a murder, part compelling portrait of a young woman who’s lost. The supernatural ingredients are effectively staged without going overboard and the questions Maureen ask herself (and us) linger in one’s mind.

2016-France-Germany-Czech Republic-Belgium. 105 min. Color. Widescreen. Produced by Charles Gillibert. Written and directed by Olivier Assayas. Cast: Kristen Stewart (Maureen Cartwright), Lars Eidinger (Ingo), Nora Waldstätten (Kyra Gellman), Anders Danielsen Lie, Sigrid Bouaziz.

Cannes: Best Director.

Last word: “To me, genre is a syntax. I’m not interested in being locked in the framework of a genre, but I know that genre filmmaking connects physically with the audience. It generates anxiety, fear, tension, much better than any other syntax in cinema. In a movie like ‘Personal Shopper’, where I’m trying to deal with the anxieties of someone who’s reconstructing herself after a devastating loss, I thought I needed that color, that texture, but I didn’t want to be held hostage to genre.” (Assayas, Slant Magazine)

 

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