Personal Shopper

— Kristen Stewart definitely has some talent (remember, she was the child with Jodie Foster in 2002's "Panic Room") and she does an admirable job of building the suspense in “Personal Shopper.” The film itself is a little uneven, but that may be intentional. I would have liked a bit more editing, particularly during the section with back-and-forth texting to carry the plot, and the two or three times there was a soft fade to black that felt a lot like the projection lamp was fading. In the end, those are somewhat minor blemishes on a good mix of drama, thriller, and ghost story. Stewart’s character is a personal shopper for a fashion celebrity she rarely sees. She’s also probably working below her potential, but it gives her time to use her medium skills, a trait she shared with her recently deceased twin brother along with the heart anomaly that killed him. She’s looking for a sign from her brother, of life beyond death, and she’s flirting with the forbidden in the rest of her life. The seen and the unseen world are sometimes hard to define in this moody work even if some of the signs are a little too obvious, but the twists and turns keep coming. Assayas' "Clouds of Sils Maria" was in my list of favorite films for 2015 and "Personal Shopper" reminds me why; I liked watching "Personal Shopper" and I like films that have some unanswered questions in the end.

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[2016. 105 min. Written and directed by Olivier Assayas. Starring Kristen Stewart, Lars Eldinger, and Sigrid Bouaziz.]
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/personal-shopper-2017