Stars: Marika Engelhardt, Tim Hopper, Kate Arrington, Audrey Francis, Tony Fitzpatrick, James Vincent Meredith, Ty Olwin, Robert T. Cunningham, Alex Moss, Raven Whitley, Genevieve Venjohnson | Written and Directed by Jennifer Reeder
The disappearance of a female teenager in a small rural town in America starts an almost domino effect of problems for the people that knew her… Knives and Skin is part coming of age drama part dark thriller and it manages to feel like nothing I have seen before.
Director Jennifer Reeder definitely has a certain vision and sees it out completely, even if, for me, it fails to work almost as much as it works. Although we assume it is set in present day, it almost feels like it is set in its own little universe with the fashion, dialogue and sets there own unique thing.
I did enjoy much of the set and costume design though. The...
The disappearance of a female teenager in a small rural town in America starts an almost domino effect of problems for the people that knew her… Knives and Skin is part coming of age drama part dark thriller and it manages to feel like nothing I have seen before.
Director Jennifer Reeder definitely has a certain vision and sees it out completely, even if, for me, it fails to work almost as much as it works. Although we assume it is set in present day, it almost feels like it is set in its own little universe with the fashion, dialogue and sets there own unique thing.
I did enjoy much of the set and costume design though. The...
- 4/6/2020
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
In Knives and Skin, a date between two high school students, Carolyn Harper (Raven Whitley) and Andy Kitzmiller (Ty Olwin), goes terribly wrong, leading to misogynistic attitudes and the disappearance of the young girl. While writer/director Jennifer Reeder uses the setting of a film noir, with some Twin Peaks vibe to it, Knives and Skin is really more like a weird collage of small-town characters that are related somehow to the missing Carolyn Harper and that are dealing with their very own conflicts. By following other teenagers (actresses Grace Smith and Kayla Carter are part of the young cast) and the (equally troubled) adults in their lives, Knives and Skin touches many dark themes (from grief to...
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- 12/18/2019
- Screen Anarchy
After making a splash on the film festival circuit, Jennifer Reeder’s haunting, music-infused neo-noir Knives and Skin is featured in a new trailer and official poster ahead of its theatrical and VOD release on December 6th from IFC Midnight.
Written and directed by Jennifer Reeder, Knives and Skin stars Marika Engelhardt, Grace Smith, Ireon Roach, Kayla Carter, Tim Hopper, Kate Arrington, Audrey Francis, James Vincent Meredith, Ty Olwin, Raven Whitley, Jalen Gilbert, Emma Ladji, Robert T. Cunningham, Tony Fitzpatrick, and Marilyn Dodds Frank.
"What happened to Carolyn Harper? Part suburban nightmare, part neon-soaked teenage fever dream, this tantalizing mystery traces the wave of fear and distrust that spreads across a small Midwestern town in the wake of a high school girl’s mysterious disappearance. As the loneliness and darkness lurking beneath the veneer of everyday life gradually comes to light, a collective awakening seems to overcome the town’s...
Written and directed by Jennifer Reeder, Knives and Skin stars Marika Engelhardt, Grace Smith, Ireon Roach, Kayla Carter, Tim Hopper, Kate Arrington, Audrey Francis, James Vincent Meredith, Ty Olwin, Raven Whitley, Jalen Gilbert, Emma Ladji, Robert T. Cunningham, Tony Fitzpatrick, and Marilyn Dodds Frank.
"What happened to Carolyn Harper? Part suburban nightmare, part neon-soaked teenage fever dream, this tantalizing mystery traces the wave of fear and distrust that spreads across a small Midwestern town in the wake of a high school girl’s mysterious disappearance. As the loneliness and darkness lurking beneath the veneer of everyday life gradually comes to light, a collective awakening seems to overcome the town’s...
- 11/8/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
"Can you feel that?" IFC has debuted an official trailer for an indie neo-noir titled Knives and Skin, the latest from artist / filmmaker Jennifer Reeder. This first premiered at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, and also stopped by the Tribeca, Fantasia, FrightFest, Helsinki, and Vienna Film Festivals. Knives and Skin is a mystical teen noir that follows a young girl's disappearance in the rural Midwest and its effect on teens and parents. Described as a surreal "teen fever dream", the massive ensemble indie cast in this includes Marika Engelhardt, Grace Smith, Ireon Roach, Kayla Carter, Tim Hopper, Kate Arrington, Audrey Francis, Ty Olwin, Jalen Gilbert, Raven Whitley, Emma Ladji, James Vincent Meredith, Robert T. Cunningham, Tony Fitzpatrick, and Marilyn Dodds Frank. This seems pretty cool, but not so sure it's as unique as it claims to be. Worth a look anyway. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Jennifer...
- 11/8/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
After making a splash on the film festival circuit, Jennifer Reeder’s haunting, music-infused neo-noir Knives and Skin (which recently played at Popcorn Frights Film Festival and has a fascinating personality all its own) has been acquired by IFC Midnight, with a release planned for this December:
Press Release: IFC Midnight has acquired North American rights to Jennifer Reeder’s visionary coming-of-age thriller Knives And Skin, starring Kate Arrington, Tony Fitzpatrick, Tim Hopper, Raven Whitley (Red Line), and Ty Olwin (Personal Shopper). Knives And Skin was produced by Brian Hieggelke and Jan Hieggelke of Newcity/Chicago Film Project. The film had its World Premiere at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival and had its North American debut at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and 2019 Fantasia Film Festival. Knives And Skin will next screen at the upcoming 2019 Fantastic Fest, and the prestigious 2019 Deauville American Film Festival. IFC Midnight is planning to release the film...
Press Release: IFC Midnight has acquired North American rights to Jennifer Reeder’s visionary coming-of-age thriller Knives And Skin, starring Kate Arrington, Tony Fitzpatrick, Tim Hopper, Raven Whitley (Red Line), and Ty Olwin (Personal Shopper). Knives And Skin was produced by Brian Hieggelke and Jan Hieggelke of Newcity/Chicago Film Project. The film had its World Premiere at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival and had its North American debut at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and 2019 Fantasia Film Festival. Knives And Skin will next screen at the upcoming 2019 Fantastic Fest, and the prestigious 2019 Deauville American Film Festival. IFC Midnight is planning to release the film...
- 8/26/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Exclusive: IFC Midnight has acquired North American rights to Jennifer Reeder’s coming-of-age thriller Knives And Skin, which played at Berlin, Tribeca, and Fantasia.
The deal was negotiated by IFC Films Evp of Acquisitions and Productions Arianna Bocco and acquisitions coordinator Adam Koehler, with CAA/Gersh on behalf of the filmmakers. Next festivals for the feature will be Fantastic Fest and Deauville, ahead of IFC’s release in December, which will include a theatrical component.
Pic follows the investigation of a young girl’s disappearance in a surreal rural Midwest town, led by an inexperienced local sheriff. Unusual coping techniques develop among the traumatized small-town residents, as a series of secrets are revealed. The backdrop of trauma colors quintessential rituals — dances, courtship, football games — in which the teenagers experience an accelerated loss of innocence while their parents are forced to confront adulthood failures.
Starring are Kate Arrington (Brittany Runs A...
The deal was negotiated by IFC Films Evp of Acquisitions and Productions Arianna Bocco and acquisitions coordinator Adam Koehler, with CAA/Gersh on behalf of the filmmakers. Next festivals for the feature will be Fantastic Fest and Deauville, ahead of IFC’s release in December, which will include a theatrical component.
Pic follows the investigation of a young girl’s disappearance in a surreal rural Midwest town, led by an inexperienced local sheriff. Unusual coping techniques develop among the traumatized small-town residents, as a series of secrets are revealed. The backdrop of trauma colors quintessential rituals — dances, courtship, football games — in which the teenagers experience an accelerated loss of innocence while their parents are forced to confront adulthood failures.
Starring are Kate Arrington (Brittany Runs A...
- 8/26/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Marika Engelhardt, Tim Hopper, Kate Arrington, Audrey Francis, Tony Fitzpatrick, James Vincent Meredith, Ty Olwin, Robert T. Cunningham, Alex Moss, Raven Whitley, Genevieve Venjohnson | Written and Directed by Jennifer Reeder
The disappearance of a female teenager in a small rural town in America starts an almost domino effect of problems for the people that knew her… Knives and Skin is part coming of age drama part dark thriller and it manages to feel like nothing I have seen before.
Director Jennifer Reeder definitely has a certain vision and sees it out completely, even if, for me, it fails to work almost as much as it works. Although we assume it is set in present day, it almost feels like it is set in its own little universe with the fashion, dialogue and sets there own unique thing.
I did enjoy much of the set and costume design though. The...
The disappearance of a female teenager in a small rural town in America starts an almost domino effect of problems for the people that knew her… Knives and Skin is part coming of age drama part dark thriller and it manages to feel like nothing I have seen before.
Director Jennifer Reeder definitely has a certain vision and sees it out completely, even if, for me, it fails to work almost as much as it works. Although we assume it is set in present day, it almost feels like it is set in its own little universe with the fashion, dialogue and sets there own unique thing.
I did enjoy much of the set and costume design though. The...
- 7/23/2019
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
When Laura Palmer is found dead and wrapped in plastic, her tragic end ripples throughout David Lynch’s Twin Peaks to devastating effect. An outsider in Agent Cooper enters the town to decipher the circumstances surrounding her demise with a cheery disposition that never fades—a direct contrast to the idyllic scene of nature and diner pies soon torn down as though a curtain clenched by the former homecoming queen’s hands, her final wish being the exposure of what lies beneath. It’s a dark tale layered in sin, a pervasive human evil attacking everyone within reach until even the purest of heart succumbs. Lynch paints it with a stylized, hyper-real affectation highlighting society’s desperation to survive its intrinsically pessimistic machinations, the melodrama amplified until happiness becomes rendered as fantasy.
What if this wasn’t the case, though? What if Laura’s murder was instead a sacrifice that...
What if this wasn’t the case, though? What if Laura’s murder was instead a sacrifice that...
- 7/23/2019
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Jennifer Reeder’s second film hails from Newcity-owned Chicago Film Project.
Paris-based sales agent WTFilms will be at the Efm next week to shop international sales excluding North America on the Generation 14Plus selection and feminist teen noir thriller Knives And Skin.
Jennifer Reeder’s second film after 2017 L.A. Outfest narrative feature grand jury award winner and SXSW entry Signature Move hails from Chicago Film Project and examines the lives of three high school girls who bond after a student vanishes.
Knives And Skin explores how a string of traumas accelerates each character’s coming of age within a racially diverse community.
Paris-based sales agent WTFilms will be at the Efm next week to shop international sales excluding North America on the Generation 14Plus selection and feminist teen noir thriller Knives And Skin.
Jennifer Reeder’s second film after 2017 L.A. Outfest narrative feature grand jury award winner and SXSW entry Signature Move hails from Chicago Film Project and examines the lives of three high school girls who bond after a student vanishes.
Knives And Skin explores how a string of traumas accelerates each character’s coming of age within a racially diverse community.
- 1/30/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Filmmaker Charlie Matthau is close to finishing the independent feature The Book of Leah starring Armand Assante, which tells the story of a teenage rape victim who rebuilds herself as a karate fighter and seeks revenge on her attacker.
Brianna Joy Chomer plays Leah Gold, who after sneaking into a night club with her friends, is sexually assaulted in 1980s Chicago. The police do not take her case seriously, trying to blame Leah for being a minor, and the way she dressed. Her high-class family, embarrassed by the incident, sends Leah to a girls school, where she ultimately meets her uncle, played by four-time Golden Globe nominee Assante, who is a Holocaust survivor.
More than another female Karate Kid film, there are layers in The Book of Leah which echo a lot of what we’ve read lately about sexual assault; how alleged victims like Christine Blasey Ford and...
Brianna Joy Chomer plays Leah Gold, who after sneaking into a night club with her friends, is sexually assaulted in 1980s Chicago. The police do not take her case seriously, trying to blame Leah for being a minor, and the way she dressed. Her high-class family, embarrassed by the incident, sends Leah to a girls school, where she ultimately meets her uncle, played by four-time Golden Globe nominee Assante, who is a Holocaust survivor.
More than another female Karate Kid film, there are layers in The Book of Leah which echo a lot of what we’ve read lately about sexual assault; how alleged victims like Christine Blasey Ford and...
- 10/8/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin, Hammou Graïa, Nora von Waldstätten, Benjamin Biolay, Audrey Bonnet, Pascal Rambert | Written and Directed by Olivier Assayas
Maureen (Kristen Stewart) is a Personal Shopper by day and a ghost hunter by night. Trying to find proof her brother is communicating with her from beyond the grave she hires herself out to investigate houses that may hold the key to an experience with the dead. When she is communicated though, is the from beyond the grave or something much more alive?
At the start of Personal Shopper, you can’t ignore the fact that Kristen Stewart feels to be playing that typically awkward pale character we’ve seen in the past. The fact is though, there is a good reason for it. Weighed down by not only a job she feels uncomfortable in, but also a foot in the world of the dead,...
Maureen (Kristen Stewart) is a Personal Shopper by day and a ghost hunter by night. Trying to find proof her brother is communicating with her from beyond the grave she hires herself out to investigate houses that may hold the key to an experience with the dead. When she is communicated though, is the from beyond the grave or something much more alive?
At the start of Personal Shopper, you can’t ignore the fact that Kristen Stewart feels to be playing that typically awkward pale character we’ve seen in the past. The fact is though, there is a good reason for it. Weighed down by not only a job she feels uncomfortable in, but also a foot in the world of the dead,...
- 7/19/2017
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Kristen Stewart as Maureen Cartwright in Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper. Photo by Carole Bethuel. Courtesy of IFC Films. An IFC Films release ©
Kristen Stewart plays an American with a psychic sense who works as an assistant to a celebrity, in the French/English language film Personal Shopper. The film won Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep, Summer Hours) the Best Director Award at Cannes, and reunites the French director/writer with Stewart, who gave a striking performance for him in 2014’s Clouds Of Sils Maria in a supporting role.
In Personal Shopper, Stewart plays Maureen Cartwright, a Paris-based American who works as a personal shopper for a famous jet-set client. But we first meet Maureen as she visits a deserted old French country house, where she is using her skills as a psychic medium to contact a spirit that maybe haunting the house. She is supposed to determine if the house...
Kristen Stewart plays an American with a psychic sense who works as an assistant to a celebrity, in the French/English language film Personal Shopper. The film won Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep, Summer Hours) the Best Director Award at Cannes, and reunites the French director/writer with Stewart, who gave a striking performance for him in 2014’s Clouds Of Sils Maria in a supporting role.
In Personal Shopper, Stewart plays Maureen Cartwright, a Paris-based American who works as a personal shopper for a famous jet-set client. But we first meet Maureen as she visits a deserted old French country house, where she is using her skills as a psychic medium to contact a spirit that maybe haunting the house. She is supposed to determine if the house...
- 3/24/2017
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – I’ve had a deep fascination with ghost stories since I was a kid. There is something both interesting and terrifying knowing that there are often unseen forces we could be encountering in our everyday life. Olivier Assayas creates an unexplainable phantasm thriller in “Personal Shopper” that remains completely captivating throughout even if you don’t understand what you just experienced.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
There is an unmistakable style that permeates from all of Olivier Assayas’ projects. There is an effortless naturalism that is ever present in his films, whether it comes from the performances or the physical locations. In the absorbing film “Clouds of Sils Maria,” Assayas explores the shifting role of nature as both the geographical force and the more human aspects of it when it comes to aging. Everything is tied together beautifully and made into complementary metaphors that apply to both the people and the places. “Personal Shopper...
Rating: 3.0/5.0
There is an unmistakable style that permeates from all of Olivier Assayas’ projects. There is an effortless naturalism that is ever present in his films, whether it comes from the performances or the physical locations. In the absorbing film “Clouds of Sils Maria,” Assayas explores the shifting role of nature as both the geographical force and the more human aspects of it when it comes to aging. Everything is tied together beautifully and made into complementary metaphors that apply to both the people and the places. “Personal Shopper...
- 3/23/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
It has long been apparent that Kristen Stewart is a future Academy Award winner, not just a surefire nominee one day. Part of the double edged sword that you have with her output is that post Twilight, she’s been almost determined to stick to challenging independent fare. Cinephiles are obviously lucking out, but a lot of her work is flying under the radar. As such, she remains on the outside looking in, for now. This week, another indie featuring a stupendous turn from Stewart hits theaters in Personal Shopper. It’s a flawed film and not for everyone, but she is absolutely great in it. As such, if she keeps showcasing her talents in this way, it might take time before the Academy notices. At the same time, if these smaller movies continue to have top notch Stewart performances in them, Oscar could take heed anyway before long. The...
- 3/7/2017
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new Cannes Film Festival hit film “Personal Shopper” starring Kristen Stewart!
“Personal Shopper,” which opens in Chicago on March 17, 2017 and is rated “R,” also stars Benjamin Biolay, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin and Nora von Waldstätten from writer and director Olivier Assayas. Note: You must be 17+ to win and attend this “R”-rated screening.
To win your free passes to “Personal Shopper” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only increases your odds of winning; this doesn’t intensify your competition!
Preferably, use...
“Personal Shopper,” which opens in Chicago on March 17, 2017 and is rated “R,” also stars Benjamin Biolay, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin and Nora von Waldstätten from writer and director Olivier Assayas. Note: You must be 17+ to win and attend this “R”-rated screening.
To win your free passes to “Personal Shopper” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only increases your odds of winning; this doesn’t intensify your competition!
Preferably, use...
- 3/6/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
"We made this oath: whoever died first would send the other a sign." IFC Films has debuted another new official Us trailer for the indie sorta-horror film from French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, titled Personal Shopper starring Kristen Stewart, which first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year. The film follows a young women who is haunted by a ghost and she communicates with him through text messages (seriously). She works as a "personal shopper" for a famous celebrity, picking up clothes all over Europe for her to wear. The full cast includes Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin, Hammou Graia, Nora Van Waldstatten & Benjamin Biolay. I'm not a fan of this film, but that's me. Here's the new official Us trailer (+ poster) for Olivier Assayas' Personal Shopper, direct from YouTube: Maureen, mid-20s, has a job she hates: seeing to the wardrobe of a media celebrity.
- 2/3/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Author: David Sztypuljak
Here’s the brand new UK poster for Icon’s Personal Shopper which sees Kristen Stewart taking on the role. The movie comes from writer / director Olivier Assayas (Clouds Of Sils Maria) and sees Stewart play the character of Maureen Cartwright, a young American living in Paris and working as a high-fashion personal shopper to the rich and famous . She is also a spiritual medium, and grieving the recent death of her twin brother, she haunts his Parisian home, determined to make contact with him.
Related: Watch the trailer here
The movie unfolds when one of her millionaire shoppers makes her a proposition and she has to decide if what he’s telling her is real, or imagined. Joining the Twilight star are Lars Eidinger, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin, Nora von Waldstätten and Olivia Ross.
If you missed it, our NY correspondent James Kleinmann attended the...
Here’s the brand new UK poster for Icon’s Personal Shopper which sees Kristen Stewart taking on the role. The movie comes from writer / director Olivier Assayas (Clouds Of Sils Maria) and sees Stewart play the character of Maureen Cartwright, a young American living in Paris and working as a high-fashion personal shopper to the rich and famous . She is also a spiritual medium, and grieving the recent death of her twin brother, she haunts his Parisian home, determined to make contact with him.
Related: Watch the trailer here
The movie unfolds when one of her millionaire shoppers makes her a proposition and she has to decide if what he’s telling her is real, or imagined. Joining the Twilight star are Lars Eidinger, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin, Nora von Waldstätten and Olivia Ross.
If you missed it, our NY correspondent James Kleinmann attended the...
- 1/26/2017
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"We made this oath - whoever died first would send the other a sign." IFC has released an official trailer for the latest film from French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, titled Personal Shopper, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. This sorta-horror film deals with a young women who is haunted by a ghost through text messages (seriously). She works as a "personal shopper" for a famous celebrity, picking up clothes all over Europe for her to wear. The cast includes Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin, Hammou Graia, Nora Van Waldstatten, and Benjamin Biolay. This will likely be a very polarizing film, as it's not really the typical horror most expect, but does have a chilling side. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for Olivier Assayas' Personal Shopper, from Vanity Fair (via Tfs): Maureen, mid-20s, has a job she hates: seeing...
- 9/30/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
If we were to bestow the title of The Queen of New York Film Festival, it would certainly go to Kristen Stewart. (Although Isabelle Huppert is a strong second choice.) With three films at the festival, this generation’s best actress (at least according to Olivier Assayas) continues to prove her talents. Her latest film with the director, the ghost story Personal Shopper, finds her reeling from the death of her brother. Ahead of a March release, IFC Films has now released the first U.S. trailer.
We said in our review, “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...
We said in our review, “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...
- 9/29/2016
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Reuniting for the first time since Clouds of Sils Maria, Kristen Stewart and director Olivier Assayas are back this year with Personal Shopper, a spooky French thriller that places Stewart in the role of Maureen, a 20s-something woman who makes ends meet by catering for the fashion needs of an aloof celebrity.
Carving out a life for herself in the French capital of Paris, today’s first trailer for Personal Shopper charts Stewart’s gradual discovery of a ghostly entity – one believed to be that of her dead twin brother, who passed away a few months earlier.
It’s an intriguing spin on your standard ghost story, with the film’s producer Charles Gillibert telling The Guardian that it is really Assayas’ stylistic tendencies that set Personal Shopper apart.
“There are studios in Hollywood asking Olivier to make films. He can do whatever he wants. He’s making European cinema.
Carving out a life for herself in the French capital of Paris, today’s first trailer for Personal Shopper charts Stewart’s gradual discovery of a ghostly entity – one believed to be that of her dead twin brother, who passed away a few months earlier.
It’s an intriguing spin on your standard ghost story, with the film’s producer Charles Gillibert telling The Guardian that it is really Assayas’ stylistic tendencies that set Personal Shopper apart.
“There are studios in Hollywood asking Olivier to make films. He can do whatever he wants. He’s making European cinema.
- 5/17/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Update: Read our Cannes review here.
Perhaps the best indicator that a film is truly something special, Kristen Stewart and Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria follow-up, the ghost story Personal Shopper, got booed after its premiere at Cannes Film Festival yesterday. Notching up our anticipation even greater now that we know it doesn’t conform to easy-to-please confines, a great first trailer has now landed, which shows off the story that takes place in Paris’ fashion underworld.
“There are studios in Hollywood asking Olivier to make films. He can do whatever he wants. He’s making European cinema,” producer Charles Gillibert tells The Guardian. “Like Olivier, Kristen challenges herself. I’ve seen on Personal Shopper how Olivier has had to adapt himself because of what she is doing with her character. He told me: ‘She’s challenging the scenes! I thought she was going to do this, but she’s doing that.
Perhaps the best indicator that a film is truly something special, Kristen Stewart and Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria follow-up, the ghost story Personal Shopper, got booed after its premiere at Cannes Film Festival yesterday. Notching up our anticipation even greater now that we know it doesn’t conform to easy-to-please confines, a great first trailer has now landed, which shows off the story that takes place in Paris’ fashion underworld.
“There are studios in Hollywood asking Olivier to make films. He can do whatever he wants. He’s making European cinema,” producer Charles Gillibert tells The Guardian. “Like Olivier, Kristen challenges herself. I’ve seen on Personal Shopper how Olivier has had to adapt himself because of what she is doing with her character. He told me: ‘She’s challenging the scenes! I thought she was going to do this, but she’s doing that.
- 5/17/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Returning to Cannes after her César-winning performance in Clouds of Sils Maria, Kristen Stewart is back with director Olivier Assayas for Personal Shopper. It’s described as a ghost story that takes place in Paris’ fashion underworld, and we’re deeply curious as to how one of France’s most talented directors weaves this genre element into that scenario. With a cast also including Joachim Trier’s go-to lead Anders Danielsen Lie, it has the makings of one of the best of this year’s Cannes, as noted in our most-anticipated feature.
Ahead of a premiere next week at the festival, the first two clips have landed as well as a poster. While we’ll be steering clear until we see the actual film, they can be seen below in one video. One can check back for our review shortly for the film also starring Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Ty Olwin,...
Ahead of a premiere next week at the festival, the first two clips have landed as well as a poster. While we’ll be steering clear until we see the actual film, they can be seen below in one video. One can check back for our review shortly for the film also starring Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Ty Olwin,...
- 5/12/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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