Olivier Assayas

A dose of ghosts & murder await Kristen Stewart in Personal Shopper trailer

Posted 9 years ago

Although it's hard to defend any aspect of the TWILIGHT franchise, including the acting, Kristen Stewart has proved that she can give a strong performance with the right material. Several years ago Stewart received critical acclaim for her role opposite...

Kristen Stewart confronts ghosts and murder in new Personal Shopper trailer

Posted 9 years ago

At this point, we’ve surely had our fill of PERSONAL SHOPPER trailers. The first came last May, soon after the film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival (a rocky premiere at that). The second came in September,...

Trailer: Kristen Stewart calls on a ghost in Personal Shopper

Posted 10 years ago

Olivier Assayas' PERSONAL SHOPPER was an extremely divisive entry at Cannes, which is probably better news than if it was unanimously adored. Films that get huge praise coming out of the festival circuit tend to have bad luck on the market, but...

Kristen Stewart seeks out a ghost in the trailer for Personal Shopper

Posted 10 years ago

Olivier Assayas, the director of CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA and SUMMER HOURS, returns with this ethereal and mysterious ghost story starring Kristen Stewart as a high-fashion personal shopper to the stars who is also a spiritual medium. Grieving the recent...

Green and Seigner to star in Polanski’s Based on a True Story

Posted 10 years ago

Fresh off making the trippy Kristen Stewart ghost story PERSONAL SHOPPER, Olivier Assayas is teaming with Roman Polanski to write a psychological thriller called BASED ON A TRUE STORY, or D'APRES UNE HISTOIRE VRAIE. Polanski will direct the French-language film,...

Trailer sells ghost story Personal Shopper, starring Kristen Stewart

Posted 10 years ago

Yesterday, we shared a report on the very different reactions writer/director Olivier Assayas's trippy ghost story PERSONAL SHOPPER has received at its two screenings at the Cannes Film Festival. One screening ended in boos, the other with a standing ovation. Now...

Ghost story Personal Shopper, starring Kristen Stewart, gets boos and cheers

Posted 10 years ago

PERSONAL SHOPPER, a Paris-set psychological thriller/ghost story we first heard about last May, has made its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where it received an interesting mix of reactions. The movie was first screened for the press on Monday...

Kristen Stewart set for ghost story Personal Shopper

Posted 11 years ago

Kristen Stewart is in for a real haunt, as Variety is reporting that the actress is set to star in Olivier Assayas’s PERSONAL SHOPPER, a Paris-set English-language ghost story taking place in the fashion underworld. It’s certainly not much of...

Review: Clouds of Sils Maria

Posted 11 years ago

    PLOT: Twenty years after playing a controversial part on stage, veteran actress Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) is asked to star in a new mounting of the play – albeit this time in a supporting part with her former...

Juliette Binoche faces her past in the trailer for Clouds of Sils Maria

Posted 12 years ago

Despite her providing a strong, albeit limited, performance in Gareth Edwards' GODZILLA, Juliette Binoche excels when she's given a meaty, character-driven role that doesn't have her killed off in the first 15 minutes. That brings us to CLOUDS OF SILS...