Why Kristen Stewart is the star for our times: we profile and interview the star of Personal Shopper, Certain Women (and Twilight). Plus Paul Verhoeven and the debate over Elle, Anna Biller on The Love Witch, Cristian Mungiu on Graduation, Jacques Becker and a wide look at Indian cinema.
She’s our James Dean: our April issue explores how Kristen Stewart has graduated from Panic Room and the Twilight saga to become what writer Graham Fuller calls “not only an actor for the moment, but the actor” – and why her beautifully neurotic, introverted underplaying, for directors from Ang Lee, Woody Allen and Walter Salles to Kelly Reichardt (in this week’s Certain Women) and Olivier Assayas (mid-March’s Personal Shopper) makes her cinema’s prime conduit to this decade’s mood of cosmic dread.
Kristen Stewart’s acute portrayals of restless, troubled women feel at times as if they are channelling a wider spirit of modern dread – something Olivier Assayas has tapped into in his second collaboration with the actor, his enigmatic ghost story Personal Shopper. By Graham Fuller.
+ Falling into the moment
At last year’s Cannes, where Personal Shopper premiered, Kristen Stewart talked about anxiety, audience expectations and the art of acting with Matthias Greuling and James Mottram
2017 APR Sight & Sound
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