Do the spirits of the recently departed hang around to watch over those they left behind? It's a question that Oliver Assayas pointedly refuses to answer in his supernatural mystery "Personal Shopper," leaving the viewer to draw their own conclusions by the intriguingly ambiguous ending. While it's a film that will madden people who like everything spelled out for them, it provides plenty to chew on for those who like to puzzle things out for themselves. Even so, the conclusions you arrive at will likely be influenced by your own beliefs or unanswered questions about the supernatural and the afterlife.
One thing we can say for certain is that the film provides an excellent showcase for Kristen Stewart. It has been fascinating to watch how she and her "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson have developed since playing their breakthrough roles in the dreary five-part adaptation of Stephanie Meyer's sappy teen vampire saga.
One thing we can say for certain is that the film provides an excellent showcase for Kristen Stewart. It has been fascinating to watch how she and her "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson have developed since playing their breakthrough roles in the dreary five-part adaptation of Stephanie Meyer's sappy teen vampire saga.
- 11/15/2022
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
From post-Francoist State Spain to post-reunified Germany, director Christian Alvart moves Alberto Rodríguez and Rafael Cobos’ Goya Award-winning thriller Marshland to a newly democratized remote village outside of Berlin via Free Country. Considering detectives Patrick Stein (Trystan Pütter) and Markus Bach (Felix Kramer) are thrust together despite building their careers in the West and East respectively, Alvart and co-writer Siegfried Kamml have ample room with which to retool things through a prism of their own nation’s potential for dark political secrets and guilt-ridden pasts. So while both men seek to solve a mystery surrounding two missing teenage sisters, they also look to peel back each other’s conditioned layers of subterfuge in order to begin unpacking Patrick’s rejection of authority and Markus’ complicity to a fallen regime.
The fallout of the Berlin Wall’s destruction creates a ripple effect that consumes every single character from a factory strike...
The fallout of the Berlin Wall’s destruction creates a ripple effect that consumes every single character from a factory strike...
- 8/21/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Cinema’s disconnect from the mainstream culture isn’t precisely anything against the quality of the movies. Relatively speaking, when I look over the list of 109 films from this year I’ve seen, in many ways, the movies are as good as they’ve ever been. What they rarely are, however, is particularly relevant, able to speak to a contemporary audience on that audience’s terms while still retaining an individual artistic identity. It’s well and good to say audiences miss the boat here and there, but how often, really, is there a movie for them to check out that is speaking the language of our times? One that’s set in the present, addresses their concerns without lecturing about it, and tells a truly involving story in a compelling way?
Which is why Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper is a breath of fresh air, and damn near a miracle.
Which is why Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper is a breath of fresh air, and damn near a miracle.
- 10/28/2017
- by Scott Nye
- CriterionCast
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin, Hammou Graïa, Nora von Waldstätten, Benjamin Biolay, Audrey Bonnet, Pascal Rambert | Written and Directed by Olivier Assayas
Maureen (Kristen Stewart) is a Personal Shopper by day and a ghost hunter by night. Trying to find proof her brother is communicating with her from beyond the grave she hires herself out to investigate houses that may hold the key to an experience with the dead. When she is communicated though, is the from beyond the grave or something much more alive?
At the start of Personal Shopper, you can’t ignore the fact that Kristen Stewart feels to be playing that typically awkward pale character we’ve seen in the past. The fact is though, there is a good reason for it. Weighed down by not only a job she feels uncomfortable in, but also a foot in the world of the dead,...
Maureen (Kristen Stewart) is a Personal Shopper by day and a ghost hunter by night. Trying to find proof her brother is communicating with her from beyond the grave she hires herself out to investigate houses that may hold the key to an experience with the dead. When she is communicated though, is the from beyond the grave or something much more alive?
At the start of Personal Shopper, you can’t ignore the fact that Kristen Stewart feels to be playing that typically awkward pale character we’ve seen in the past. The fact is though, there is a good reason for it. Weighed down by not only a job she feels uncomfortable in, but also a foot in the world of the dead,...
- 7/19/2017
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Chicago – I’ve had a deep fascination with ghost stories since I was a kid. There is something both interesting and terrifying knowing that there are often unseen forces we could be encountering in our everyday life. Olivier Assayas creates an unexplainable phantasm thriller in “Personal Shopper” that remains completely captivating throughout even if you don’t understand what you just experienced.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
There is an unmistakable style that permeates from all of Olivier Assayas’ projects. There is an effortless naturalism that is ever present in his films, whether it comes from the performances or the physical locations. In the absorbing film “Clouds of Sils Maria,” Assayas explores the shifting role of nature as both the geographical force and the more human aspects of it when it comes to aging. Everything is tied together beautifully and made into complementary metaphors that apply to both the people and the places. “Personal Shopper...
Rating: 3.0/5.0
There is an unmistakable style that permeates from all of Olivier Assayas’ projects. There is an effortless naturalism that is ever present in his films, whether it comes from the performances or the physical locations. In the absorbing film “Clouds of Sils Maria,” Assayas explores the shifting role of nature as both the geographical force and the more human aspects of it when it comes to aging. Everything is tied together beautifully and made into complementary metaphors that apply to both the people and the places. “Personal Shopper...
- 3/23/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
MaryAnn’s quick take… Strange and melancholy, this genre-defying portrait of grief and loneliness puts Kristen Stewart’s onscreen persona of restive reluctance to very effective use. I’m “biast” (pro): love Kristen Stewart
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Oh, what a strange and lovely and melancholy film! The genre-defying Personal Shopper — part mystery, part drama, part thriller, part supernatural fantasy — is nothing you can expect, and continues to challenge your expectations at every turn: it’s an electrifying thing for a movie to pull off this well, tripping you up while also keeping you satisfied (unless you require concrete resolutions and answers to all the questions a movie asks, in which case you may well find yourself frustrated). The lingering eeriness Personal Shopper left me with is a great wonder.
American Maureen (Kristen Stewart: American Ultra, Anesthesia...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Oh, what a strange and lovely and melancholy film! The genre-defying Personal Shopper — part mystery, part drama, part thriller, part supernatural fantasy — is nothing you can expect, and continues to challenge your expectations at every turn: it’s an electrifying thing for a movie to pull off this well, tripping you up while also keeping you satisfied (unless you require concrete resolutions and answers to all the questions a movie asks, in which case you may well find yourself frustrated). The lingering eeriness Personal Shopper left me with is a great wonder.
American Maureen (Kristen Stewart: American Ultra, Anesthesia...
- 3/17/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
It has long been apparent that Kristen Stewart is a future Academy Award winner, not just a surefire nominee one day. Part of the double edged sword that you have with her output is that post Twilight, she’s been almost determined to stick to challenging independent fare. Cinephiles are obviously lucking out, but a lot of her work is flying under the radar. As such, she remains on the outside looking in, for now. This week, another indie featuring a stupendous turn from Stewart hits theaters in Personal Shopper. It’s a flawed film and not for everyone, but she is absolutely great in it. As such, if she keeps showcasing her talents in this way, it might take time before the Academy notices. At the same time, if these smaller movies continue to have top notch Stewart performances in them, Oscar could take heed anyway before long. The...
- 3/7/2017
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new Cannes Film Festival hit film “Personal Shopper” starring Kristen Stewart!
“Personal Shopper,” which opens in Chicago on March 17, 2017 and is rated “R,” also stars Benjamin Biolay, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin and Nora von Waldstätten from writer and director Olivier Assayas. Note: You must be 17+ to win and attend this “R”-rated screening.
To win your free passes to “Personal Shopper” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only increases your odds of winning; this doesn’t intensify your competition!
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“Personal Shopper,” which opens in Chicago on March 17, 2017 and is rated “R,” also stars Benjamin Biolay, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin and Nora von Waldstätten from writer and director Olivier Assayas. Note: You must be 17+ to win and attend this “R”-rated screening.
To win your free passes to “Personal Shopper” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only increases your odds of winning; this doesn’t intensify your competition!
Preferably, use...
- 3/6/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Personal Shopper Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Director: Olivier Assayas Written by: Olivier Assayas Cast: Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Nora von Waldstätten, Anders Danielsen, Sigrid Bouaziz This tale of two cities may not be about the French Revolution but is distinctly about the revolution in communication. The biggest breakthrough in how we talk to others […]
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- 3/6/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Author: David Sztypuljak
Here’s the brand new UK poster for Icon’s Personal Shopper which sees Kristen Stewart taking on the role. The movie comes from writer / director Olivier Assayas (Clouds Of Sils Maria) and sees Stewart play the character of Maureen Cartwright, a young American living in Paris and working as a high-fashion personal shopper to the rich and famous . She is also a spiritual medium, and grieving the recent death of her twin brother, she haunts his Parisian home, determined to make contact with him.
Related: Watch the trailer here
The movie unfolds when one of her millionaire shoppers makes her a proposition and she has to decide if what he’s telling her is real, or imagined. Joining the Twilight star are Lars Eidinger, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin, Nora von Waldstätten and Olivia Ross.
If you missed it, our NY correspondent James Kleinmann attended the...
Here’s the brand new UK poster for Icon’s Personal Shopper which sees Kristen Stewart taking on the role. The movie comes from writer / director Olivier Assayas (Clouds Of Sils Maria) and sees Stewart play the character of Maureen Cartwright, a young American living in Paris and working as a high-fashion personal shopper to the rich and famous . She is also a spiritual medium, and grieving the recent death of her twin brother, she haunts his Parisian home, determined to make contact with him.
Related: Watch the trailer here
The movie unfolds when one of her millionaire shoppers makes her a proposition and she has to decide if what he’s telling her is real, or imagined. Joining the Twilight star are Lars Eidinger, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin, Nora von Waldstätten and Olivia Ross.
If you missed it, our NY correspondent James Kleinmann attended the...
- 1/26/2017
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
It's fair to say that Kristen Stewart has been straining mightily to turn over a new leaf in her career, and in some sense, she already has: in the years since she finished her run as the star of the critically-reviled but wildly-popular Twilight series, she's managed to transform into one the critical community's favorite stars. Look no further than the reviews out of Cannes for Stewart's performance in Olivier Assayas's uncategorizable Personal Shopper, in which the actress stars as Maureen, an American living in Paris who pays the bills by working as an assistant to a demanding French model/actress (Nora von Waldstätten). She also happens to be a psychic medium who is literally and figuratively haunted by the spirit of her late twin brother, who died in the French capital shortly before the events of the movie begin to unfurl. While several members of the notoriously volatile...
- 5/19/2016
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
After Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper confirms Olivier Assayas as the director most adept at drawing the best out of Kristen Stewart. Here she follows in the footsteps of Maggie Cheung and Asia Argento, actors whose exceptional central performances prevented fundamentally flawed films by Assayas – Clean and Boarding Gate, respectively – from foundering altogether. Stewart’s achievement is arguably even more remarkable considering that for the bulk of Personal Shopper’s running time, her only co-actor is an iPhone.
En route to London from Paris to buy clothes for her employer Kyra (Nora von Waldstätten), a high-profile celebrity too busy to do her own shopping, Stewart’s character Maureen starts receiving text messages from an unknown number. As transpired earlier in the film, Maureen is still grieving over the death of her twin brother Lewis three months prior and has since been trying to make contact with his spirit – while he was still alive,...
En route to London from Paris to buy clothes for her employer Kyra (Nora von Waldstätten), a high-profile celebrity too busy to do her own shopping, Stewart’s character Maureen starts receiving text messages from an unknown number. As transpired earlier in the film, Maureen is still grieving over the death of her twin brother Lewis three months prior and has since been trying to make contact with his spirit – while he was still alive,...
- 5/17/2016
- by Giovanni Marchini Camia
- The Film Stage
Distributor Weltkino also agree long-term cooperation with France’s CG Cinema.
German distributor Weltkino Filmverleih has acquired the rights to Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things To Come (L’Avenir), playing in competition at Berlin, and Olivier Assayas’ Personal Shopper, starring Kristen Stewart.
Les Films du Losange handles Things To Come, starring Berlinale regular Isabelle Huppertas a philosophy teacher forced out of a rut when her husband leaves her at the same time her demanding mother dies.
Hansen-Love’s fifth feature marks a change in generation and pace following her techno-scene inspired Eden.
Things To Come is produced by Charles Gillibert of Paris-based CG Cinema, whose recent credits include the Oscar-nominated Mustang and Clouds Of Sils Maria.
Assayas’s English-language Personal Shopper reunites the director with Us actress Stewart, having previously made Clouds Of Sils Maria together.
Described as “a ghost story set on the fringes of the fashion world”, Stewart plays a personal shopper to the stars with psychic...
German distributor Weltkino Filmverleih has acquired the rights to Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things To Come (L’Avenir), playing in competition at Berlin, and Olivier Assayas’ Personal Shopper, starring Kristen Stewart.
Les Films du Losange handles Things To Come, starring Berlinale regular Isabelle Huppertas a philosophy teacher forced out of a rut when her husband leaves her at the same time her demanding mother dies.
Hansen-Love’s fifth feature marks a change in generation and pace following her techno-scene inspired Eden.
Things To Come is produced by Charles Gillibert of Paris-based CG Cinema, whose recent credits include the Oscar-nominated Mustang and Clouds Of Sils Maria.
Assayas’s English-language Personal Shopper reunites the director with Us actress Stewart, having previously made Clouds Of Sils Maria together.
Described as “a ghost story set on the fringes of the fashion world”, Stewart plays a personal shopper to the stars with psychic...
- 2/11/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Elisabeth Scharang’s Jack, Simon Jaquemet’s War (Chrieg) earmarked for local distribution.
German sales company Picture Tree International (Pti) is to expand into local theatrical distribution with two titles from its sales line-up: Swiss director Simon Jaquemet’s drama War (Chrieg) and Elisabeth Scharang’s Locarno debut Jack.
Picture Tree has set an April 28 release for War (Chrieg), which debuted at San Sebastian 2014 and screened at Berlin 2015, while Jack is set for release later in the year.
Speaking to ScreenDaily from Sundance at the weekend, Pti managing director Andreas Rothbauer discussed the push into local distribution.
“We initially want to gather some experience with a few of our sales titles provided they weren’t already licensed to a German distributor,” Rothbauer explained.
“World sales is our core business and, depending on this, we will decide which film might make sense for in-house distribution. However, as the German market is very competitive, I think that...
German sales company Picture Tree International (Pti) is to expand into local theatrical distribution with two titles from its sales line-up: Swiss director Simon Jaquemet’s drama War (Chrieg) and Elisabeth Scharang’s Locarno debut Jack.
Picture Tree has set an April 28 release for War (Chrieg), which debuted at San Sebastian 2014 and screened at Berlin 2015, while Jack is set for release later in the year.
Speaking to ScreenDaily from Sundance at the weekend, Pti managing director Andreas Rothbauer discussed the push into local distribution.
“We initially want to gather some experience with a few of our sales titles provided they weren’t already licensed to a German distributor,” Rothbauer explained.
“World sales is our core business and, depending on this, we will decide which film might make sense for in-house distribution. However, as the German market is very competitive, I think that...
- 1/25/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
If one has seen Olivier Assayas‘ Clouds of Sils Maria, then you’ve witnessed Kristen Stewart‘s most accomplished performance thus far, and are rightfully looking forward to their next collaboration. Having revisited the film this past week to confirm it deserves a spot on my forthcoming top ten of the year, it was perfect timing, as we now have the first look at their next film, Personal Shopper.
With filming wrapped, hopefully a Cannes debut is in store for the English-language drama described as a “ghost story taking place in the fashion underworld.” Reteaming with producer Charles Gillibert, he previously said similar themes from Sils Maria will be explored, with an added “genre/fantasy dimension.” Check out the image below, thanks to UniFrance, for the film also starring Sigrid Bouaziz, Lars Eidinger, Anders Danielsen Lie, and Nora von Waldstätten.
IFC Films will likely release Personal Shopper next year.
With filming wrapped, hopefully a Cannes debut is in store for the English-language drama described as a “ghost story taking place in the fashion underworld.” Reteaming with producer Charles Gillibert, he previously said similar themes from Sils Maria will be explored, with an added “genre/fantasy dimension.” Check out the image below, thanks to UniFrance, for the film also starring Sigrid Bouaziz, Lars Eidinger, Anders Danielsen Lie, and Nora von Waldstätten.
IFC Films will likely release Personal Shopper next year.
- 12/18/2015
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Shoot to commence in Paris on Oct 27 before heading to Prague, London and Oman.
Olivier Assayas’s English-language Personal Shopper, reuniting him with Us actress Kristen Stewart, is due to start shooting in Paris next week, its producers have announced.
Described as “a ghost story set on the fringes of the fashion world”, Kristen Stewart plays a personal shopper to the stars with psychic powers that she once shared with a recently deceased twin brother.
Other cast members include Sigrid Bouaziz, Lars Eidinger, Anders Danielsen Lie, Nora von Waldstätten.
Shooting will start on Oct 27, for two weeks, before heading to Prague, London and Oman.
Assayas and Stewart previously collaborated on Sils Maria, alongside Juliette Binoche, for which she went on to win a César for best supporting actress.
Charles Gillibert, who also produced Assyas’s Sils Maria and Summer Hours (L’heure d’été), is lead producer on the project with support from co-producers German Detail Film, Belgian...
Olivier Assayas’s English-language Personal Shopper, reuniting him with Us actress Kristen Stewart, is due to start shooting in Paris next week, its producers have announced.
Described as “a ghost story set on the fringes of the fashion world”, Kristen Stewart plays a personal shopper to the stars with psychic powers that she once shared with a recently deceased twin brother.
Other cast members include Sigrid Bouaziz, Lars Eidinger, Anders Danielsen Lie, Nora von Waldstätten.
Shooting will start on Oct 27, for two weeks, before heading to Prague, London and Oman.
Assayas and Stewart previously collaborated on Sils Maria, alongside Juliette Binoche, for which she went on to win a César for best supporting actress.
Charles Gillibert, who also produced Assyas’s Sils Maria and Summer Hours (L’heure d’été), is lead producer on the project with support from co-producers German Detail Film, Belgian...
- 10/14/2015
- ScreenDaily
Götz Spielmann is a very intelligent director and he always seems to know exactly what he wants. In October November he creates an intense drama that sometimes gains emotional ground due to Spielmann's control and sometimes looses because it is just too controlled.It is a family drama encircling the life of two sisters and their dying father. Spielmann puts a lot into the mix: One of the sisters, Sonja, played by Nora von Waldstätten, is an actress and has lost her connection to home. She returns from an isolated life in the big city when her father gets ill.The second woman Verena, played by Ursula Strauss, has an affair with the doctor, who is played in a cheesy, almost embarrassing way by Sebastian Koch.The problem...
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- 11/2/2013
- Screen Anarchy
The fare on offer at the Spanish film festival underlines film-makers' enduring fascination with the doppelganger
The San Sebastián film festival is in its fourth day, and if there's a theme emerging, it's this: doubles, mirror images, doppelgangers. All over the festival, actors are bumping enigmatically into themselves.
In Arie Posin's The Face of Love, Annette Bening plays a woman whose husband (Ed Harris) tragically dies: some time later, she finds herself attracted to a man with a striking resemblance to her late partner, played of course by Ed Harris. In Denis Villeneuve's Enemy, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a regular guy with a regular life who bumps into a minor-league actor with an uncanny resemblance to him: Gyllenhaal again.
I arrived at the festival last night, in time to see Cannibal, directed by Manuel Martín Cuenca. It's about a homicidal young tailor in Granada called Carlos, with a sinister...
The San Sebastián film festival is in its fourth day, and if there's a theme emerging, it's this: doubles, mirror images, doppelgangers. All over the festival, actors are bumping enigmatically into themselves.
In Arie Posin's The Face of Love, Annette Bening plays a woman whose husband (Ed Harris) tragically dies: some time later, she finds herself attracted to a man with a striking resemblance to her late partner, played of course by Ed Harris. In Denis Villeneuve's Enemy, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a regular guy with a regular life who bumps into a minor-league actor with an uncanny resemblance to him: Gyllenhaal again.
I arrived at the festival last night, in time to see Cannibal, directed by Manuel Martín Cuenca. It's about a homicidal young tailor in Granada called Carlos, with a sinister...
- 9/23/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Götz Spielmann’s “October November” might be the quietest drama of 2013, an intimate, somber study of one family’s unsaid truths. It is also, however, a film that leaves little impression, making it a step backwards—or, at the very least, sideways—for the director of the stunning “Revanche.” Spielmann’s 2008 character study/thriller was deservedly nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar (2009), and drew an international spotlight to the Austrian filmmaker. His much-anticipated follow-up, “October November,” made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and while it plays reasonably well in a festival setting, it is unlikely to make waves worldwide. It is a family tale, a European cousin of some of Woody Allen’s Bergman-esque dramas (specifically “Interiors” and even “September”); if Mike Leigh had not already used the title “Secrets and Lies,” it would have been dead-on here. Sonja (Nora von Waldstätten) and Verena...
- 9/8/2013
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Playlist
Oktober November
Director: Götz Spielmann
Writer(s): Barbara Albert, Martin Gschlacht, Jessica Hausner, Antonin Svoboda/Götz Spielmann
Producer(s): Antonin Svoboda, Martin Gschlacht, Bruno Wagner, Götz Spielmann
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Nora von Waldstätten, Ursula Strauss, Peter Simonischek, Sebastian Koch, Johannes Zeiler
Soaked in dread, heavy on the atmospherics and with a production value of the highest caliber, his seventh feature film, 2008′s Revanche was one hell of a manner to introduce filmmaker Götz Spielmann to a vast number of cinephiles. We’re hoping for more of the same with this one.
Gist: Two sisters, very different. Their father, whose life is ending. A guesthouse in the mountains. A family history.
Release Date: Revanche was featured at the Berlin Film Fest, and while this won’t be ready in time for Cannes, I’m thinking it’ll be submitted to Venice
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Director: Götz Spielmann
Writer(s): Barbara Albert, Martin Gschlacht, Jessica Hausner, Antonin Svoboda/Götz Spielmann
Producer(s): Antonin Svoboda, Martin Gschlacht, Bruno Wagner, Götz Spielmann
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Nora von Waldstätten, Ursula Strauss, Peter Simonischek, Sebastian Koch, Johannes Zeiler
Soaked in dread, heavy on the atmospherics and with a production value of the highest caliber, his seventh feature film, 2008′s Revanche was one hell of a manner to introduce filmmaker Götz Spielmann to a vast number of cinephiles. We’re hoping for more of the same with this one.
Gist: Two sisters, very different. Their father, whose life is ending. A guesthouse in the mountains. A family history.
Release Date: Revanche was featured at the Berlin Film Fest, and while this won’t be ready in time for Cannes, I’m thinking it’ll be submitted to Venice
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- 1/16/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
This is a Pure Movies review of Carlos, directed by Olivier Assayas, starring Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Alejandro Arroyo, Ahmad Kaabour, Talal El-Jordi, Juana Acosta, Nora von Waldstätten, Christoph Bach, Rodney El Haddad and Julia Hummer. Written by David Hudson. A joint French-German production, co-written and directed by Olivier Assayas, Carlos was originally made as a three-part, five hour TV mini-series. It’s now been edited down to 165 minutes for worldwide cinematic release. It tells the story of Carlos the Jackal; one of the world’s most notorious terrorists, whose heyday ran from the mid-70s up until the end of the cold war. Born Ilich Ramírez Sánchez in Venezeula in 1949, Carlos was a committed and cold revolutionary who likened himself to Che Guevera, but who’s own personal war against capitalism and imperialism took in a more random and international selection of victims.
- 10/30/2010
- by David Hudson
- Pure Movies
Good guy or bad guy, does it really matter? The real-life person in question needs to have a winning charisma that translates well onto screen, and makes for a powerful story to watch, however long the film lasts.
Carlos runs at 334 minutes, but it’s advisable to see it in its full-length glory to get a true sense of how the infamous Jackal, nee Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, came about and became a fugitive in every country he set foot in, before his subsequent capture. The shorter version does miss out key points, like Carlos’s association with the Japanese Red Army that led to his involvement in future, multinational terrorist operations. Some of what you watch is understandably hearsay, but the actual timeline of events watched on a big screen makes for captivating viewing.
Think The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008), and you instantly get the picture of its filming style, which...
Carlos runs at 334 minutes, but it’s advisable to see it in its full-length glory to get a true sense of how the infamous Jackal, nee Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, came about and became a fugitive in every country he set foot in, before his subsequent capture. The shorter version does miss out key points, like Carlos’s association with the Japanese Red Army that led to his involvement in future, multinational terrorist operations. Some of what you watch is understandably hearsay, but the actual timeline of events watched on a big screen makes for captivating viewing.
Think The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008), and you instantly get the picture of its filming style, which...
- 10/28/2010
- by Guest
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
IFC releases their Carlos drama helmed by Olivier Assayas into limited venues today. The film is in three parts, written by Dan Frank and tells the story of Ilich Ramírez Sánchez who, for two decades, was one of the most wanted terrorists on the planet. Between 1974, in London, where he tried to assassinate a British businessman; and 1994, when he was arrested in Khartoum, he lived several lives under various pseudonyms, weaving his way through the complexities of international politics of the period. Who was Carlos? How did his various multi-layered identities fit together? Who was he before engaging body and soul in a never-ending struggle? The drama is built around these questions. Read more for the synopsis on Part One, Part Two and Part Three. See below for the trailer and images. The film opens October 15th and stars Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Alejandro Arroyo, Ahmad Kaabour, Talal El-Jordi, Juana Acosta and Nora von Waldstätten.
- 10/15/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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