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- Director: Olivier Assayas
- Writer: Olivier Assayas
- Producer: Sylvie Barthet; Fabian Gasmia
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Mr Assayas won 'Best Director' @ Cannes with this 'companion piece' to Clouds of Sils Maria...sometimes, the whole awards system makes you wonder! Especially when this film received a hefty 'boo-ing' followed by a standing ovation...how fickle!
It begins [well] with spookiness. It ends [not-so well] with spookiness. The problem is...what's in-between (apart from the [too few] spooky bits)...this eye-bashing testimony to [high-end] product placement. Ms Stewart's star power can certainly finance a film.
There's a 20-monotonous-minute text conversation that amounts to - hold on tightly to your hats, folks - Kirsten Stewart donning an expensive dress!
There's a murder that amounts to the only suspect [possible] being - very quickly - arrested. There are a whole host of scenes showing Ms Stewart being rather nifty on a moped! There's even a ghost...spewing ectoplasm!!!
Confused? This film certainly is!
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Revolves around a ghost story that takes place in the fashion underworld of Paris.
Cast & Characters
Kristen Stewart as Maureen;
Lars Eidinger;
Nora von Waldstatten;
Anders Danielsen Lie;
Pamela Betsy Cooper as Eurostar Business Traveller;
David Bowles as Driver / Jules Allix;
Sigrid Bouaziz;
Ty Olwin as Gary;
Fabrice Reeves as Actor;
Benoit Peverelli;
Abigail Millar as Eurostar passenger