<em>Personal Shopper</em> Is an Unusual Postmodern Ghost Story
Olivier Assayas’s new film stars Kristen Stewart as a grief-stricken Parisian fashionista who moonlights as a medium.
The protagonist of Olivier Assayas’s new film , Maureen, is somewhat of a wraith. Skinny, angular, and mostly silent, she visits high-end Parisian boutiques and picks out clothes for her demanding celebrity boss, never trying them on, zipping from one store to the next on a motorcycle. If she knows how impossibly cool her life seems from the outside, she doesn’t show it. Instead, Maureen (Kristen Stewart) seems intent on keeping the audience at arm’s length, even
