With Personal Shopper, master filmmaker Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours; Carlos) has created one of cinema's most unusual ghost stories. Re-teaming with Kristen Stewart after her award-winning turn opposite Juliette Binoche in Clouds of Sils Maria, this time their collaboration feels built entirely around her icy, vague disposition.

She plays Maureen, a personal shopper for a high-end model in Paris. But she's also a medium who can communicate with the dead, and she visits her childhood home in an attempt to reach her recently deceased twin brother. Desperate for a sign, Maureen starts receiving mysterious text messages from an unknown source. Even for someone connected to the spirit world, the loss of a loved one is difficult to reconcile, and Assayas creates a tense and eerie portrait of a character in limbo, bolstered with another surprising performance from Stewart.

"A tender yet terrifying story of grief, covetous desire, and signals from the afterlife." Nick Davis, Film Comment

Winner: Best Director, Cannes