Personal Shopper

Unrated

1/8/20171h 46m

Premiere Release (US)

Overview:

Maureen, mid-20s, is a personal shopper for a media celebrity. The job pays for her stay in Paris, a city she refuses to leave until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.

Director:

Olivier Assayas

Status:

Released

Language:

French

Buget:

$6,000,000.00

Revenue:

$1,305,195.00

Key words:

london, england
paris, france
loss of loved one
medium
poltergeist
grief
murder
apparition
female protagonist
spirit
model
twins
text message
shopping
ghost
death of brother
dress shop
dead brother
personal shopper
contacting spirits
clothes shopping

Cast

Kristen Stewart

~ as ~

Maureen Cartwright

Lars Eidinger

~ as ~

Ingo

Sigrid Bouaziz

~ as ~

Lara

Anders Danielsen Lie

~ as ~

Erwin

Ty Olwin

~ as ~

Gary

Hammou Graïa

~ as ~

Police Officer

Nora Waldstätten

~ as ~

Kyra Gellman

Benjamin Biolay

~ as ~

Victor Hugo

Audrey Bonnet

~ as ~

Cassandre

Pascal Rambert

~ as ~

Jérôme

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Reviews (3)

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Simon Foster
Written 9 year(s) ago
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"A lonely existence tormented by distant voices is examined in Olivier Assayas’ Personal Shopper, a moody, occasionally frustrating, often brilliant study in isolation, grief and disenfranchisement..."

Read the full review here: http://screen-space.squarespace.com/reviews/2016/6/15/personal-shopper.html
Reno
Written 8 year(s) ago
4
Texting, shopping and Ghosting!

This film was different. My bad, I did not quite get the title at first. I misunderstood it. I thought it was like a Shopaholic theme, a person with a shopping addiction. Then what I saw was different, and somewhere in the narration it explains what the title meant.

The real challenge watching it is the slow moving storyline. Dull and silent on most of the parts. But the mix of fantasy, like supernatural and regular drama brings interesting fact us to stay with it. Though the most of the film was about texting and shopping. I even thought does it any way connected to Stewart's previous film 'Clouds of Sils Maria'. Because there's something where both the films syncs with.

Despite being a bit boring film, Kristen Stewart is the reason it is watchable. Her performance was good, but again the mystery about the unexplainable things holds us as well. Definitely a watchable film, but not an entertaining film that you are looking for on a weekend. I'm not sure who is the target audience, but surely less people will think it is a fine film. So I hope you choose it carefully.

4/10
John Chard
Written 5 year(s) ago
7
Well ... How's within that, that the soul ... continues to exist ... after death?

Personal Shopper is written and directed by Olivier Assayas. It stars Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin and Hammou Graïa. Cinematography is by Yorick Le Saux.

A personal shopper in Paris refuses to leave the city until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person starts to contact her via text messages.

Personal Shopper is a film that's impossible to recommend with any confidence, even if I personally liked it well enough. It was booed on first showing at Cannes, yet upon the second main screen viewing of it, it got a five minute standing ovation. If you look at the reviews on sites such as IMDb you will see plenty of 1/10 reviews mixed with high scoring ones, evidence of the divisive nature of Assayas' picture. A lot of people went into it expecting a "Paranormal Activity" type of film, but it's far from that.

It's a meditation on grief and the complexities of the mind and the human condition under duress. Stewart gives her all for the director, a real bravura performance. Yes, the ending is either going to make or break your faith in what you have just witnessed, but if you buy into, and think about the narrative's trajectory, this has haunting and ethereal rewards. 7/10