Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
Maureen, mid-20s, is a personal shopper for a media celebrity. The job pays for her stay in Paris, a city she refuses to leave until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.
Personal Shopper is a genuinely singular film — Olivier Assayas blends grief drama, supernatural thriller, and fashion-world observation in a way that feels unmistakably its own. Kristen Stewart delivers a remarkably internalized, physically committed performance that anchors the film's ambiguity. The cinematography is functional and naturalistic rather than visually inventive, serving the story without calling attention to itself. The plot weaves together promising threads — grief, the occult, a mysterious texter, a murder — but struggles to unify them satisfyingly, feeling elliptical to a fault. The ending, which leans hard into unresolved ambiguity, will frustrate many viewers as it withholds rather than earns its mystery, leaving key narrative questions dangling in a way that feels incomplete rather than provocative.