Personal Shopper certainly divided audiences at Cannes last year eliciting boos at the critics screening and a standing ovation the next night on its official premiere. The Times summed it up as, ‘Think of an episode of Scooby-Doo, add product placement by Chanel, plus a soupçon of French existentialism, and you have some sense of the sheer bonkersness of Personal Shopper.’
The film is heading towards its March general release, and as a result a trailer has arrived.
In the movie, ‘A young American in Paris works as a personal shopper for a celebrity. She seems to have the ability to communicate with spirits, like her recently deceased twin brother. Soon, she starts to receive ambiguous messages from an unknown source.’
Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]
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