Personal Shopper

Who could have possibly predicted that not only would Olivier Assayas and Kristen Stewart combine to form one of the most potent creative duos working in film today, but that they would achieve such prominence over the course of only two movies?

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Personal Shopper is sleek and spooky, seductive and suspenseful. It flirts with silliness, as ghost stories do. And also with heartbreak.

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Even though it's oblique, Personal Shopper is affecting, singular and a great showcase for Kristen Stewart.

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Olivier Assayas (“Clouds of Sils Maria”) examines 20-somethings, living and dead, who find themselves stuck between places.

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In 1976's The Devil Finds Work, James Baldwin makes a crucial verb distinction when discussing the screen legends, like Bette Davis, with whom he was transfixed (sometimes uneasily so) in his youth: "One does not go to see them act: one goes to watch them be."

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French supernatural drama is a perfect showcase for one this generation's most fearless leading actresses.

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The film explores the extent to which Olivier Assayas's characters have always found, and lost, their identities.

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The over-all effect is as taut with tangible evidence as a detective story.

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Young actors still figuring out their craft, and themselves, always want to work with seasoned directors, for obvious reasons.

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Kristen Stewart browses for ghosts in Olivier Assayas’ unclassifiable Personal Shopper.

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These are almost certainly meant to represent her interior state of mind rather than actual physical manifestations of the supernatural, but showing them feels a little too easy, like having your cake and eating it too. More critically: they’re incredibly cheesy, eroding the film’s potential for a serious and incisive psychological exploration, which was there for the taking.

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Can director-muse lightning strike twice in the same spot? Nearly three years ago, Kristen Stewart starred alongside Juliette Binoche in Gallic auteur Olivier Assayas’ surreal, brilliantly unsettling drama Clouds of Sils Maria; the role earned Stewart the French equivalent of an Oscar and seemed to free her, finally, from the last of Twilight’s tween shackles.

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“Personal Shopper” is a mess — not an uninteresting one, and better that than a staid, unadventurous bore, but a mess nonetheless.

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For my money, the best thing about “Personal Shopper” was learning of the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint, who was doing wild abstract art before anybody else and claimed it was being dictated by spirits from the great beyond.

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Kristen Stewart stars as a personal shopper trying to connect with her recently deceased twin brother in Olivier Assayas’s creepy ghost tale.

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Maureen (Kristen Stewart) lives in Paris, working as a personal shopper. She is also a medium, an ability also possessed by her twin brother. Following his death, from a condition she shares, Maureen cannot move on with her life until she’s had a sign from her brother that he’s now at peace.

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After winning a Cesar for 'Clouds of Sils Maria,' Kristen Stewart reteams with director Olivier Assayas to play yet another beleaguered celebrity slave.

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Kristen Stewart reteams with her 'Clouds of Sils Maria' director Olivier Assayas for a Paris-set ghost story.

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