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Olivier Assayas has delivered a fundamentally strange, disquieting picture. Personal Shopper is a unique genre-bending psychological thriller.

Maureen (Kristen Stewart) is an American who works in Paris as a personal shopper for Kyra (Nora von Waldstatten), a self-absorbed celebrity. She communicates briefly with her boyfriend (Ty Olwin), a tech expert who is working in Oman. Neither of these relationships matter much to her in comparison to the recent loss of her twin brother who died of a congenital heart condition. He promised to try and contact her from beyond the grave.

And so Maureen is waiting, and it is a hard discipline to keep. This wraithlike young woman spends her downtime communing with ghosts in a haunted house, desperately looking for a sign from her brother. But even more unnerving is her discovery that some mysterious person is stalking her via texts to her phone. He seems to know a lot about her fantasies and her obsession with forbidden activities...

Director: Olivier Assayas
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz
Country: France, Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

BD50, DVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 01:45:31 | 44.8 Gb + 7.29 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Extras:

• Olivier Assayas - in this new video interview, director Olivier Assayas explains what motivated him to shoot Personal Shopper and discusses some of the main themes in it. The interview was conducted exclusively for Criterion in Toronto in 2017. (17 min, 1080p).

• Cannes Film Festival, 2016 - presented here is a press conference featuring Olivier Assayas, actors Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, and Sigrid Bouaziz, and producer Charles Gillibert, which was held at the Cannes Film Festival where Personal Shopper was nominated for the prestigious Palme d'Or Award and won Best Director Award. In English and French. (46 min, 1080i).

• Trailer - original trailer for Personal Shopper. In English, not subtitled. (2 min, 1080p).