{"id":27618,"date":"2022-01-30T13:37:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T12:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27618"},"modified":"2022-01-30T13:37:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T12:37:54","slug":"a-review-of-the-film-personal-shopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27618","title":{"rendered":"A review of the film &#8220;Personal Shopper&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I much admired &#8220;Clouds Of Sils Maria&#8221; which was both written and directed by the French Olivier Assayas with the American Kristen Stewart in an important support role. In &#8220;Personal Shopper&#8221;, again Assayas is both writer and director and this time Stewart is the leading actress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story is set largely in Paris although, in the main, the dialogue is in English. In this supernatural psychological thriller, Stewart takes the eponymous role as both aide to a supermodel and a psychic seeking to make contact with her recently deceased twin brother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The film divided the 2016 Cannes Film Festival: on its initial screening, it was booed but, at its official premiere, it received a long standing ovation and won the Best Director prize. Generally I don&#8217;t like movies featuring the supernatural, but here Stewart &#8211; who is rarely off the screen &#8211; gives an impressive ethereal performance.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I much admired &#8220;Clouds Of Sils Maria&#8221; which was both written and directed by the French Olivier Assayas with the American Kristen Stewart in an important support role. In &#8220;Personal Shopper&#8221;, again Assayas is both writer and director and this time Stewart is the leading actress. The story is set largely in Paris although, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27619,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27618\/revisions\/27619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}