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  ★★★★½ review by davidehrlich on Letterboxd

  “Cinema is about resurrection. Cinema is about dealing with your own ghosts and bringing them to life. Cinema can explore your subconscious and your memories, but mostly it allows what is lost to come back.” — Olivier Assayas

  I promised myself that I wouldn’t tell Kristen Stewart about my dad.

  I repeated that instruction like a prayer as I prepared for our interview. I didn’t want to make this about me. One of the first hurdles you must clear as a film journalist is accepting you are always the least-interesting person in the room. As I sat across from Stewart and writer-director Olivier Assayas in an empty Lincoln Center atrium on a rainy October afternoon, it wasn’t even close.

  When you’re grieving, the dead always seem relevant. And when you’re talking about Assayas’ “Personal Shopper,” where Stewart’s character moonlights as a modern-day medium desperately trying to establish contact with her late twin brother, the dead always are.

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  ★★★★ review by davidehrlich on Letterboxd

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  i loved this movie. more than just a slinky and seductive ghost story for the iPhone age, it's also an exceptionally smart portrait of how living technology shapes how we remember (and live with) the dead. it's slinky, seductive, and feels graced with a genuine sense of loss. and there's a long-take close-up at the end that singlehandedly proves that Kristen Stewart is worth her cult. i can't wait to see this again.

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  ★★★½ review by brat pitt on Letterboxd

  the ghost was #relatable because i too would focus all of my supernatural powers solely on texting kristen stewart

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  ★★★★½ review by Timcop on Letterboxd

  The wildest thing that happens here is how K-Stew puts a space between the final word of a sentence and the question mark.

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  ★★★★½ review by Eli Hayes on Letterboxd

  Fear is but a form of fascination.

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