My favorite director took to Twitter today to share his love of a brilliant ghost movie that deserves all the praise possible. Guillermo del Toro, director of such spooky cornucopia as Crimson Peak, Hellboy, Blade II, Cronos, The Shape of Water, and The Devil’s Backbone, knows a thing or two about telling a good ghost story. He was even responsible for producing The Orphanage, one of the most acclaimed ghost films in recent memory.
Directed by Olivier Assayas, Personal Shopper is an esoteric 2016 thriller that stars Kristen Stewart and Lars Eidinger. Now streaming on Hulu, the title from the internationally acclaimed director of Clouds of Sils Maria and Summer Hours stunned audiences with this ethereal and mysterious ghost story starring Kristen Stewart as a high-fashion personal shopper to the stars who is also a spiritual medium. Grieving the recent death of her twin brother, she haunts his Paris home, determined to make contact with him.
When the official Criterion Collection Twitter account suggested we revisit the underseen gem in recognition of Stewart’s birthday, horror icon and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro piped in. The Pan’s Labyrinth director reminded us that Personal Shopper is one of his all-time favorite ghost movies. Technically, he lists the Parisian fever dream as one of his “top 3,” but a 2019 Tweet lists it as his top pick.
See what Guillermo del Toro says about Personal Shopper here:
Kristen Stewart can be seen in theaters right now in the excellent sapphic bodybuilding thriller Love Lies Bleeding by Saint Maud director Rose Glass. In his four-star review, Dread’s own Chad Collins writes that Love Lies Bleeding is “violent, weird, frequently funny (Stewart should do more comedy), and—in its own surrealist way—as romantic a parable as last year’s Bones and All.”
Check out the trailer for Personal Shopper right here:
Lastly, what do you think? Have you seen Personal Shopper? If not, will you check it out on Hulu after Guillermo del Toro shared his high praise for the arthouse thriller? Let us know on Twitter via @DreadCentral. We are always around to chat about all things Guillermo del Toro!
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