Perhaps understandably, Stewart – whose relationships with her Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson, director Rupert Sanders and French performer Stephanie “Soko” Sokolinski have been well documented elsewhere – regards the situation differently. Said titular shopper, played by Stewart, possesses the ability to communicate with ghosts.
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“Personal Shopper got the first boos I heard at #Cannes2016, which led me to only clap harder”, The Guardian critic Nigel M Smith wrote.
Although reluctant to say more about a personal project she hopes will “speak for itself”, Stewart expresses a strong desire to be a lightning rod for talent.
Actress Kristen Stewart poses for photographers during a photo call for the film Cafe Society, at the 69th worldwide film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 11, 2016. But-somehow-the latter doesn’t compel me as much. “I can not get out of right here”. The film received boos from a large segment of the crowd, and many members of the press took to social media after the screening to voice their distaste for the film.
Directed by Olivier Assayas, it tells the tale of a fashion PA (Stewart) haunted by the spirit of her dead twin brother. And Stewart (who appears in Channel ads in many magazines in Cannes) has emerged as an unlikely American muse in this Euro-arthouse. It was a vindicating experience, said the actress. In Allen’s latest, she plays a Hollywood film studio secretary in the 1930s who blossoms into a wealthy, glamorously-gowned socialite.
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At times, Stewart said, she feels incapable of doing simple things like going to a store that “logistically can prove not worth it” because of the hectic paparazzi swirl that would ensue. I really appreciate all of it. The only way to really show someone who really couldn’t connect the dots was to show extreme versions of a person that wouldn’t typically go together…the movie is really about her finding herself…it’s an enormous identity crisis movie and I really leaned into that. It’s an inherently freaky premise, so we have a distinct feeling that Stewart knew the risks of such an endeavor when she signed on to the project. Later she added: “I’m really sensitive to energies and I truly believe I’m driven by something I can’t really define. It gives me a feeling we are not alone”.
