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Premieres: Festival de Cannes| May 11-22, 2016 | Post |

Personal Shopper [Information] at IndieBo Film Festival, Bogotá from July 13-23, 2017

(2016) Personal Shopper


2017

★★★★★ Kristen Stewart’s Solo Masterclass – Personal Shopper (DVD Review by James Prestridge, Prestridge Squared | Tweet | 20170721
Kristen Stewart has a sincere relatability and magnetism. It worked effortlessly to counter Maria Enders’ stubborn pride in Clouds of Sils Maria (expertly played by Binoche). And now gives Assayas the opportunity to delve into  the easily derided subject of the supernatural in Personal Shopper.
2017’s best so far by Tim Grierson, Screen International & Paste | Tweet | 20170719

A Criterion Collection | Oct 2017 | Film Info | Announcement | Tweet

★★★★☆ “Personal Shopper” Is A Beautiful & Beguiling Curiosity by Dan Stephens, Top10Films | Tweet | 20170717
It’s a riveting, unhurried supernatural drama with a brilliantly compelling central performance from the very talented Kristen Stewart.
★★★★☆ Personal Shopper Blu-ray review: “Kristen Stewart is captivating in this original drama” by Dan Bullock, Critical Popcorn | Tweet | 20170717
Overall, the key to the whole story is the performance by Kristen Stewart who delivers on all fronts as Maureen by being a believable, captivating lead that draws your attention to her every emotion. I’d recommend seeking out Certain Women to watch her continuation of her ever-expanding talent with different challenges.
Personal Shopper; Aquarius; Beauty and the Beast; A Quiet Passion and more – reviews by Guy Lodge, The Guardian | Tweet | 20170716
Doors creak, ectoplasm swirls and wind whistles through crumbling mansions in Personal Shopper (Icon, 15), but Olivier Assayas’s sharp, glassy ghost story is no retro Victorian rehash. This tale of grief taking either uncanny or deliriously illusory form amid the walking cyphers of Paris’s celebrity set is quite the most modern vision of a phantom menace in recent memory – one that sees even an instrument as soulless as the iPhone become a potential conduit of spiritual presence.

As bespoke fashion buyer Maureen (Kristen Stewart) tries to blankly continue her life of second-hand privilege in the wake of her twin brother Lewis’s death, uncertain apparitions intervene to shake her out her waking sleepwalk. Is it Lewis? Someone or something else? Or as she enters eerie text-message exchanges with an invisible stalker, is the call simply coming from inside her head? Assayas thrillingly keeps all options open, directing what seems like schlock with silken precision that gradually uncovers a messy tangle of emotional threads. As for Stewart, while wholly unconvincing as someone named Maureen, she’s otherwise coolly astonishing, shuffling terror, desire and disaffection with a single hand from scene to scene.
Blu-Ray Review: Personal Shopper by Rob Aldam, BackSeatMafia | Tweet | 20170713
Stewart’ plays it beautifully, portraying both power and fragility. Personal Shopper is an intriguing, mysterious and unsettling drama which keeps the audience in the dark until the very end.
The Best Films of 2017 So Far by Collider Staff | Tweet | 20170717
Yes, this Kristen Stewart-texts-with-a-ghost movie has received a lot of snickers. But for the truly adventurous, this ghost story is one of the most profound films of the year. If A Ghost Story is about time, this ghost story is about communication—the various ways we conduct it and how simple answers we desire are hard to come by when there are two people—let alone a spirit—communicating.

Stewart is phenomenal as a shopper who works for a model that she basically never sees, just drops off her new designer clothes in her apartment that rarely hosts her. She’s in Paris hoping to make spiritual contact with her deceased twin brother. Her pursuit is a ghost, she essentially works for a ghost, and she herself moves through the city as if she’s a ghost. Olivier Assayas’ lyrical film is about the isolating feeling when communication falters. There is a lengthy text message scene with a spirit that includes the typing dots and read receipts. We can visualize when we’re being engaged and when we’re being ignored via information on a phone and the future is only more detached. And the more detached we get, the less likely we’ll be able to connect to the spirits of the previous world. — Brian Formo
The director of A Ghost Story wants to haunt his wife when he dies by Alissa Wilkinson, Vox | 20170713
I didn't see it until this past March, so I was aware of it last year when we shot this movie because it had just played at Cannes, but I had no idea that it was actually a ghost movie. I knew about the text messages, and I knew that there were some horror elements, but I didn't know that it actually was about haunting, and the movie knocked me off my feet. I can't stop thinking about it. I'm relatively obsessed with it. And the ghost visual effects in that movie are amazing. - David Lowery
★★★★★ Personal Shopper Blu-ray review by John Parker, Entertainment Focus | Tweet | 20170715
And this is no small part down to Kristen Stewart, who is on sensational form, delivering the performance of her career as Maureen. The choices she makes to keep things small, grounded, and internalised are incredibly effective. This role could easily have been translated by another actress into hysteria, but Stewart is too smart for that. Charismatic and oozing screen presence, she carries the film through all its mysteries and strange turns, and further establishes herself as the most interesting actress working today.
David Lowery on the Simplicity of 'A Ghost Story' by Bernard Boo, Pop Matters | Tweet | 20170713
Personal Shopper by Olivier Assayas is my favorite movie of the year so far. It’s an amazing ghost movie, and I didn’t even know it was a ghost movie when I went to see it. It’s a masterful movie—I just can’t stop thinking about it. I hope Criterion puts it out because I want to own it on Blu-ray. I would love to program a double feature of that and A Ghost Story. I don’t watch this movie anymore because I’m done with it, but I would definitely sit through it again to watch it with Personal Shopper. - David Lowery
The 10 Best Films of 2017 So Far by Jake Tropila, Optimism Vaccine | Tweet | 20170710
Earlier this year, I jokingly tweeted that Personal Shopper was merely “100 minutes of Kristen Stewart buying clothes, hunting ghosts, and text messaging” and that I loved every fucking minute of it. A tad reductive, I’ll admit, but it’s not a completely inaccurate summation of the film’s plot (and far be it from me to think that that would go on to be my most popular tweet ever). The latest from French auteur cum punk-rock enthusiast Olivier Assayas, Personal Shopper does indeed feature Kristen Stewart as the personal shopper for a famous actress who, in her spare time, practices being a medium to seek out the spirit of her recently deceased twin brother, who succumbed to a congenital heart condition Stewart’s character was also born with. That’s essentially all there is to it, with the middle act of the film dedicated to Stewart receiving a series of ominous text messages from an unknown source, one that may or may not be her brother. It’s to the credit of Assayas’ that he makes this material so damn compelling to watch on screen, with Stewart equally rising to the occasion to deliver her career-best work as an actress yet.
The 10 Best Movies of 2017 (So Far): ‘Logan,’ ‘Personal Shopper,’ and More by Marlow Stern, Daily Beast | Tweet | 20170709
The most impressive film so far this year, in this writer’s humble opinion, is Olivier Assayas’ latest—a spooky, beguiling meditation on grief, celebrity, and the pratfalls of adulthood. Kristen Stewart (never better) plays the personal shopper to a celebrity. In between menial tasks, she’s haunted by the death of her twin brother, whose ghost (or is it?) guides the kindred spirit to rebel against her soul-draining station in life. Between this and the stellar Clouds of Sils Maria, there are few better filmmaker-actress pairings than Assayas and Stewart, with the nimble French director bringing out the very best in his American muse.
The Best Films of 2017 by Morris Movies | Tweet | 20170707
Part ghost story, part character study, part suspense thriller and part murder mystery - I'll confess to having no idea how to label Olivier Assayas' Personal Shopper, but I know for certain that it is brilliant. Kristen Stewart gives a career defining performance here, embodying her character in revolutionary ways - even when the film goes wordless for a good twenty minute stretch, Stewart's physical acting is exemplary. Personal Shopper refuses to be boxed in, building to a final act unwilling to answer every question it raises in favour of a more abstract, open ended conclusion. The film is consistently tense and its atmospheric work might be the best of the year thus far, but it's Stewart herself that takes a great film and turns it into a masterful one. If it isn't the best performance of the year come December, I'll eat the very laptop on which I'm typing this sentence.
The best performances of the year in movies (so far) by Aaron Locke, Hypable | Tweet | 20170707
It’s been nearly five years since the last installment in the Twilight franchise was released in theaters and Kristen Stewart has been working hard ever since. Her credits include critical favorites like Clouds of Sils Maria and Certain Women. Her transition from the star of a vampire-romance series to an art house movie star has met with wild success and her work in Personal Shopper is just the most recent testament to that.
Stewart plays Maureen, a personal assistant for a model and a medium trying to contact her dead brother. In both concept and execution, the movie is rather unorthodox, but what Stewart does with the role is remarkable to watch. She offers so much to the audience by playing the role in such a genuine and honest way. Kristen’s naturalistic acting ticks and tendencies feel at home here, grounding the film’s more unbelievable moments.
She takes a role that could have easily felt artificial and makes it real. What’s more impressive is the way she’s able to fill scenes in the film that would otherwise feel empty. The story gives her almost nothing and no one to act against except sometimes a cell phone, but even in isolation Stewart shines.
13 Most Haunting Ghost Movies by Joe Leydon, Variety | Tweet | 20170707
After the great French filmmaker Olivier Assayas gave us a truly haunting movie about the specter of mortality — “Late August, Early September” (1998) — it’s not surprising that he eventually followed up with this quietly unsettling drama about possible communication from the Other Side. Kristen Stewart gives a career-highlight performance a young woman who may, or may not, be receiving texts and other messages from her late brother.
Seeing Stars Can modern movie posters be cured of Floating Head Syndrome?
By Craig Caron, TIFF | 20170706
Tweet: Explore Olivier Assayas' career in posters — whose films (mostly) managed to avoid the pitfalls of Hollywood design.

The best films of 2017 — so far. Here's what our film critics think
By Kenneth Turan and Justin Chang, LA Times | Tweet | 20170703
Between Nixon and Kristen Stewart in Olivier Assayas’ splendidly spooky “Personal Shopper,” it’s already shaping up to be an excellent year for actresses. - Justin Chang

I agree about both, just wonderful performances. - Kenneth Turan
The 10 Best Female Film Performances of Early 2017
By Matthew Eng, Tribeca | Tweet Tribeca/@Eng_Matthew | 20170629
But Stewart also fleshes out a whole character and the sincerity with which she abandons herself to Maureen’s precarious search for clarity cannot be overpraised.
The Best Movies and TV Shows of 2017, so Far
By Richard Lawson & Joanna Robinson | Tweet | 20170629
Personal Shopper - Olivier Assayas’s bewitching (beghosting?) film is hard to classify as any one thing. It’s a grief drama, a paranoid techno-horror, a metaphysical inquiry into the supernatural, a tour of the banalities of the fashion world. In jumbling its tropes and styles, Personal Shopper captures something both mysterious and piercingly relatable. Assayas and his wise and marvelous star Kristen Stewart say something chilling, comforting, hopeful, and mysterious about what it is to be alive in the world—and, just maybe, what it is to not be.
Kristen Stewart’s Remarkable Performance Makes ‘Personal Shopper’ One of the Year’s Great Indies — Watch Film Chat with IndieWire - Episode 6/27
By Zack Sharf & Erci kohn, Indiewire | 20170627 | Teaser | Tweet
IndieWire On Demand: "Personal Shopper" confirms Stewart and Olivier Assayas are one of the most exciting duos working in film today.

Olivier Assayas on being a feminist filmmaker by Kevin Ritchie, Now Toronto | 20170621
More recently, he has garnered attention for working on back-to-back projects with Hollywood actor Kristen Stewart, who became the first American to win France’s César Award for her role in 2015’s Clouds Of Sils Maria, another film industry satire.
Last year’s Personal Shopper solidified Stewart as a bona fide art house actor, but despite the publicity boost that comes with casting an ex-Twilight star, Assayas still struggles when it comes to getting international projects off the ground.
An evening with Olivier Assayas by Donsaron Kovitvanitcha, The Nation | 20170429
When I was writing it, I was not completely sure this film was for Kristen, but ultimately it was. I think it has to do with how we met and how we functioned together. When we worked together in ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’, I didn’t really know her. I wrote the part of a young American girl and could have picked another actress. But I’ve always like Kristen, but when we started shooting, I realised that there is much more to her than I had imagined. She is much more complex. I discovered her in the process of working on ‘Clouds’. She has a supporting role and it’s dependent on the weird dynamic between her and Juliette. Working with her made me want to try doing something more complex, a film where she would have more space to invent or create a character.
Bright Wall/Dark Room June 2017: "Of Meat & Mediums"
By Kelsey Ford, Roger Ebert | 20170613

The Film Stage Show Ep. 234 – Personal Shopper by Brian Roan, The Film Stage | Tweet | 20170403
Michael Snydel and Bill Graham to briefly discuss the live-action Ghost in the Shell before a full discussion of Olivier Assayas‘ Personal Shopper, starring Kristen Stewart.

Personal Shopper is a thrilling Tour de Force | Grade: A / 95%
By Becky Belize, AudiencesEverywhere | 20170327
Personal Shopper is a fresh and relevant movie, gripping and tense all at once. Assayas has delivered a stunning and strangely moving film that serves as a platform for Kristen Stewart to access the depth of her talent.
8 out 10 Personal Shopper (2017) (Review) by Nath, Perks of Being Nath | Tweet | 20170322
With great thanks to a combination of genres in play and helmed by a magnificent performance from Kristen Stewart, director and writer Olivia Assayas crafts a ghost story of great intensity and skill, showing there are signs of life in this unique piece of cinema.
The Normalization of Kristen Stewart by Chandler Levack, TIFF | 20170329

Olivier Assayas on Kristen Stewart 'Personal Shopper' by Robert Levin, amNY | 20170322
What’s exciting about her is the mixture she has of animal instinct and deep technical knowledge of what she’s doing.
Personal Shopper’s Kristen Stewart goes into new territory by Norman Wilner | 20170322

9.5 out 10 Film Review: Kristen Stewart gives a career defining performance in the genre smashing Personal Shopper by Morris Movie | 20170322
Carried by a career defining performance from Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper is a tense, atmospheric and profoundly unique piece of cinema that admirably refuses to confine itself to one genre.
★★★★☆ Personal Shopper review – Kristen Stewart outdoes even herself by Wendy Ide, The Guardian | 20170319
Stewart delivers a career-besting interpretation of a young woman who finds herself in a purgatory of grief following the death of her twin brother.
★★★★★ Personal Shopper review – Kristen Stewart is truly captivating by Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian | Tweet | 20170316
Stewart is outstanding as a haunted fashion-biz assistant in Olivier Assayas’s enigmatic ghost story and quarterlife character study.
An Interview with Olivier Assayas by Louis Chilton, The 730 Review | 20170316
Kristen Stewart’s performance is terrific, but you suggested at the Q&A that there were depths to her that were still yet to be seen. Can you elaborate on this?

I genuinely think that I’m extremely privileged to be working with Kristen because I think she’s a very unique actress. When we were making Personal Shopper I was just wondering where the limit was. I never really sensed where the limit could be. I think that Kristen can be funny; I think that’s a dimension of her that has not been explored much. I think she has a wicked sense of humour. Once in a while, when she has something she can use for comedy, she’s pretty smart at using it. I would love to do a period piece with her. I’ve made two movies with her and I’m still curious of where she can go. Which doesn’t mean I’ll be making my next film with her but there is the potential for that.
Kristen Stewart on Trump and Her New Movie, ‘Personal Shopper’ by Kathryn Shattuck, NY
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It’s quite a divisive movie. It’s not easy to describe. It’s not really easy to even describe your own experience with it sometimes — and that doesn’t bother me. It’s not that I don’t care. It’s just that I don’t mind being a part of something that is polarizing.
Inside the Dark, Glamorous World of the Kristen Stewart Flick Personal Shopper With Costume Designer Jürgen Doering by Emily Farra | 20170215

Olivier Assayas on Recovering from Trauma and Capturing the Spiritual World with ‘Personal Shopper’ by Nick Newman, The Film Stage | Tweet | 20170314

Everyday Ghosts: Olivier Assayas on Personal Shopper by Hillary Weston, Criterion | 20170314


Kristen Stewart On New Film ‘Personal Shopper,’ Why She Cut Off Her Hair | TODAY| 20170309
Special screening presented by Ruffion, Air France and UniFrance at New York's Metrograph

Kristen Stewart's "Realness" by Stephen Schaefer | 20170314
Maybe there’s a god-like presence there or something more threatening, like an evil spirit. Basically she has such little frame of reference for what’s real – because that in and of itself is impossible to define – that when she starts getting these messages, she’s willing to engage because all she wants is answers.
How Kristen Stewart won her freedom - and what she plans to do with it
By Sara Vilkomerson, ENT Weekly | 20170310
When people tell me it was during Clouds of Sils Maria they realized how much Kristen could do, I’m not surprised,” says Sils Maria director Olivier Assayas, who first took note of the actress when she played a small role in 2007’s Into the Wild. “I was in the same position. I really discovered the scope of what she can do during filming. I continually realize just how much more there is to her talent.
Kristen Stewart call Fashion Industry 'Weird'and 'Exclusive' by Alexa Teitjen, WWD | 20170310

Critic's Notebook: Let's Start Appreciating Kristen Stewart as a Great Actress
by Miriam Bale, THR | 20170310
Exploring the tension between the two sides of the actress’ persona — glamour queen and reclusive tomboy — Stewart gives her most fascinating, thrillingly physical performance yet in 'Personal Shopper.'
★★★★ Personal Shopper by Peter Sobczynski, Roger Ebert | 20170310
Aiding immeasurably in accomplishing this is Stewart delivering what could be the finest performance of her still-developing career. Throughout the film, she is required to display any number of internal shifts in personality while still remaining more or less the same on the outside. To each shift in character, she manages to find an approach that does something wholly new and original while at the same time being absolutely real and recognizable. She saves the best for the very last with a delivery of the film’s final line that is extraordinarily evocative. To all those who still decree Stewart to be a limited actress because of her increasingly glum turns in the “Twilight” films, where she was dealing with writing and characters seemingly designed to defeat anyone with talent or intelligence, they are hereby advised to see her work here and either admit to her enormous talents or admit to the fact that they have absolutely no idea of what constitutes great acting.
Kristen Stewart on Reuniting With Olivier Assayas for ‘Personal Shopper’: It’s ‘Super French, Man’
By Michael Tedder, Variety | Tweet | 20170310
“We’re very similar in the way that we want to throw ourselves into something that is mysterious rather than present ideas,” she says. “He opens up the environment in a way that is so freeing. You’re making something new, all the time, and that’s really exciting for me.”
Review: Kristen Stewart Is Entrancing as a Haunted ‘Personal Shopper’
By A. O. Scott, NYT | 20170309

Kristen Stewart on Trump and Her New Movie, ‘Personal Shopper’ by Kathryn Shattuck, NYTimes | Post | 20170309
Oh, man, I don’t know. I’ve witnessed other people be not received well or rub people the wrong way, and I feel like most of the time that’s coming from a place where that person is shy, and they’re actually trying really hard. I think when I was younger I was, straight up, just guarded — and maybe that came across like I didn’t care. But really, it was quite the opposite.
Kristen Stewart on Trump and Her New Movie, ‘Personal Shopper’
By Kathryn Shattuck, NYT | Post | 20170309
Oh, man, I don’t know. I’ve witnessed other people be not received well or rub people the wrong way, and I feel like most of the time that’s coming from a place where that person is shy, and they’re actually trying really hard. I think when I was younger I was, straight up, just guarded — and maybe that came across like I didn’t care. But really, it was quite the opposite. Watching - Kristen
How Kristen Stewart and Olivier Assayas Bring the Dead Back to Life in ‘Personal Shopper’
By David Ehrlich, Indiewire | Tweet | 20170306
That the gripping sequence caused such a stir following the film’s Cannes premiere is ridiculous for at least two reasons: For one thing, it may be the 21st Century’s signature episode of Hitchcockian suspense. For another, it’s also the stuff of vintage Assayas, crystallizing what the cinema’s reigning modernist has done so well for the last 30 years.
2016

Behind the scenes on Personal Shopper with Chanel and Kristen Stewart
By Eugénie Trochu, translated by Isabelle Johnson, Vogue Paris | 20161215
Olivier Assayas’ ethereal 'Personal Shopper' is out in cinemas now. Supported by Chanel, the Parisian house also dressed the film's lead Kristen Stewart, who shines in a role full of mystique, echoing the esoteric tastes of Coco Chanel herself. Exclusive behind the scenes shots taken at the label’s flagship rue Cambon store.
41st annual Toronto International Film Festival - Personal Shopper | Sep 8, 2016 – Sep 18, 2016

Olivier Assayas: Kristen Stewart is "the best actress of her generation"
By Melanie Goodfellow, Screen Daily | 20160925
Kristen has an infinitely larger range than many actresses of her generation. She has an inner depth coupled with a spontaneity and naturalness that sets her apart. She also has an innate understanding of cinema that makes me believe she could succeed at directing too.
★★★★★ Review: Kristen Stewart's psychic spooker is a must-have
By Peter Bradshaw, Vanity Fair | 20160516
54th New York Film Festival | Film Info | 20 Sep - 16 Oct, 2016 | Main Post: Videos and Conferences


NYFF Review: Personal Shopper – Death, Genre And Kristen Stewart by Siddhant Adlakha, Birth Movies Death | Tweet | 20161127
It’s a strange, unsettling, undefinable work, at times off-balance but always focused, and it allows Stewart to deliver yet another stunning performance (what feels like her dozenth in the last three years alone), further cementing her as one of this generation’s finest screen actors. If you aren't already on that train, I’d suggest hopping on.
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Kristen Stewart Has Already Stolen the Show at Cannes
By Stephanie Zacharek, Time | 20160518
You wouldn’t call her gamine—that’s too cute, too in-between, and Stewart is definitive. She knows exactly who she is: Her allure is that she keeps us guessing.
Personal Shopper: Cannes 2016 Review
By Giovanni Marchini Camia, The Film Stage | 20160518
After Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper confirms Olivier Assayas as the director most adept at drawing the best out of Kristen Stewart. Here she follows in the footsteps of Maggie Cheung and Asia Argento, actors whose exceptional central performances prevented fundamentally flawed films by Assayas – Clean and Boarding Gate, respectively – from foundering altogether. Stewart’s achievement is arguably even more remarkable considering that for the bulk of Personal Shopper’s running time, her only co-actor is an iPhone. – Giovanni M.C.
★★★★★ Personal Shopper review: Kristen Stewart's psychic spooker is a must-have by Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian | Tweet | 20160516
Kristen 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.

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