FRANCE, GERMANY, REPUBBLICA CECA, BELGIO

2016 – 35mm – color – 105’

Direction: Olivier Assayas

Screenplay: Olivier Assayas

Cinematography: Yorick Le Saux

Editing: Marion Monnier

Set design: François-Renaud Labarthe

Costumes: Jurgen Doering

Cast: Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin

Producers: Charles Gillibert, Artemio Benki, Fabian Gasmia

Production: CG Cinéma with Vortex Sutra, Sirena Film, Detail Films, Arte France Cinéma, Arte Deutschland/WDR

SYNOPSIS

Maureen is an American woman living in Paris. She works as a personal shopper for Kyra, a world-famous star, whose image Maureen takes care of, choosing all her clothes. She has a stratospheric budget available for her shopping but must always be careful not to disappoint Kyra, who is extremely fussy and constantly busy. Maureen is actually also a medium: she has the gift of communicating with spirits and uses it to establish contact with the afterlife and be able to say goodbye to her recently deceased twin brother, Lewis. But her life becomes more complicated when she begins to receive strange messages from a spirit whose identity is not certain and who is probably not Lewis.

CRITICAL NOTE

“Personal Shopper is above all a film about the current imperative of communication, both an instinct and a scourge of our contemporary times. Maureen only communicates with ghosts. Her employer is practically a ghost herself. (…) Assayas takes the real, concrete, naked body of Kristen Stewart, who works with him again after Clouds of Sils Maria and once more curiously playing a character who is dependent on other people, and catapults it into an immaterial tangle of dissonant echoes, unsettling shadows, spirits and torments.” (Adriano De Grandis, Segnocinema No. 205, May-June 2017)

PREMI AWARDS

2016 Cannes Film Festival: Miglior Regia Best Direction