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Special Issue on Personal Shopper

To celebrate the release of Olivier Assayas' Personal Shopper, his second collaboration with actress Kristen Stewart for which he picked up the Best Director prize at Cannes, we are dedicating a full week to essays on the film and its ties to Assayas' previous work. Here you'll find all of our articles on the film.

Alex Heeney interviews Olivier Assayas
Alex Heeney on depression and technology in Personal Shopper
Joseph Earp on Kristen Stewart and the myth of 'bad acting'
Mike Thorn on dread, eroticism, and text messages in Personal Shopper
Aaron Hammond on grief and ghosts in Summer Hours and Personal Shopper

Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper, Women in Horror Month

Joseph Earp / February 27, 2020

Kristen Stewart in Personal Shopper (Great horror performances #4)

In this excerpt from her essay on Kristen Stewart in Personal Shopper, which features in our feminist horror ebook Beyond Empowertainment, Joseph Earp discusses …

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Alex Heeney / November 5, 2019

Personal Shopper conflates depression with technological obsession

In Personal Shopper, the boundary between Maureen and others is both because of technology and merely exacerbated by it. This is an excerpt from our book, …

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Summer Hours

Aaron Hammond / March 31, 2017

Ghosts, grief, and objects left behind in Assayas’ Summer Hours and Personal Shopper

Olivier Assayas' films Summer Hours and Personal Shopper are united by their portrayal of the recently bereaved confronting what the dead did, or did not, leave …

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Personal Shopper text messages, Personal Shopper eroticism, Personal Shopper horror

Mike Thorn / March 30, 2017

‘No desire if it’s not forbidden’: Dread, eroticism, and text messaging in Personal Shopper

By using text messaging as a source of terror that morphs into eroticism, Personal Shopper acknowledges and subverts horror traditions. …

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Olivier Assayas

Alex Heeney / March 24, 2017

Olivier Assayas on Personal Shopper, filming text messages

Olivier Assayas discusses the visual and aural aesthetic of Personal Shopper and how he shot that impressive texting set piece. This is an excerpt of the …

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