This Kristen Stewart Thriller Offers Up An Unconventional Ghost Story

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Many horror movies begin the same way: a couple moves into a new house, feels something supernatural there, and sees or hears ghosts in the middle of the night. Maybe one person is convinced that there's a spirit and the other one is more skeptical or they're both on board, but either way, this kind of scary movie is fairly common. Some are more well-crafted than others, but most of the time, a horror or thriller film about ghosts can be a bit boring.

Kristen Stewart has had a fascinating career, moving on from becoming famous for playing Bella in Twilight to more artistic films, and her 2016 thriller Personal Shopper is a gem. As Maureen Cartwright, a young woman who misses her brother who passed away and left her feeling lonely and lost, Stewart helps tell a new ghost story that is fantastic.

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When people think about films telling stories about ghosts, they imagine movies about haunted houses and characters attempting to solve the puzzle of an angry spirit so they can live comfortably in the house or move on with their lives. Personal Shopper delves heavily into a young woman dealing with grief after her brother Lewis died. Because Lewis knew that he had a health issue with his heart and that he would die, he told Maureen that he would signal to her that he was a ghost and that she would know it was him. Personal Shopper does something much differently from other ghost stories: it features a main character who actually wants to believe that spirits are real. Most of the time, a protagonist will be absolutely terrified of the house that they just moved into, and they want the weird things to stop happening. In Maureen's case, she wishes that she could