'Personal Shopper' A Review

Personal Shopper is a thriller about Maureen(Kristen Stewart) attempting to make contact with her deceased twin brother while buying high end cloths for her rich and temperamental boss. After an unknown number begins sending her mysterious text messages Maureen's grip on what's real begins to loosen and the boundary between the temporal and the ethereal begins to fray.

Stewart gives one of her most serviceable performances however there is still an exceeding amount of distracting ticks and odd line delivery that make it seem off balance. However she does make the most with the incredibly clunky script she's given, providing the closet level of authenticity compared to the remaining cast. They all suffer from saying lines that were seemingly translated by a machine from french to english and then not edited. Aside from Stewart all the performances are bizarre, wooden, and borderline animatronic. She comes across as the only human in a world of 2D cutouts.

The story itself is convoluted, three disparate plot lines fail to weave together and also fail to resolve with any satisfaction. Is this a ghost story, a murder mystery, a class drama? In attempting to inject all three into one narrative none are fully realized. Interestingly shot and scored there are some captivating moments but they are few and far between, brief moments of promise in the two hour running time.

Clunky, muddled, and difficult in its spasmodic oddness.

Don't See It.