New Kristen Stewart Movie Personal Shopper Is Booed At Cannes

The new Kristen Stewart movie ‘Personal Shopper’ has split the audience at the Cannes Film Festival, with some audience members booing as the credits rolled.

The film, an avante garde take on the ghost movie, finds Stewart playing a personal shopper to a German supermodel and designer, but who is also a psychic attempting to contact her dead twin brother Lewis.

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The movie reconnects Stewart with the French director Olivier Assayas, who cast the 'Twilight’ star as his lead in the award-winning 2014 movie 'Clouds of Sils Maria’, which earned rave reviews.

But this latest effort appears to have had something of a 'marmite’ effect, and despite some vocal objections to the film yesterday, many critics have come to its defence.

In particular, The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, who has given the movie a full five stars out of five in his early notice.

“Is Kristen Stewart the fifth ghostbuster?” he writes. “Questions like that are liable to pop into your mind watching this captivating, bizarre, tense, fervently preposterous and almost unclassifiable scary movie from Olivier Assayas.

“It’s a film which delivers the bat-squeak of pure craziness that we long for at Cannes, although at the first screening some very tiresome people continued the festival’s tradition of booing very good films.”

The booing later became the talk of Twitter, with critics lining up to give their two cents:

Indeed, last year, the Gus Van Sant movie 'Sea of Trees’, oddly another ghost story of sorts, got booed by critics at Cannes.

Critics were more united in their dislike of it, however.

Luckily, Woody Allen’s ‘Cafe Society’, the other movie Kristen Stewart is starring in that has seen its premiere at the festival, has been warmly received.

But ‘Personal Shopper’ joins a raft of movies that have been booed at the annual festival over the years.

Though not booed at its premiere, Quentin Tarantino’s 'Pulp Fiction’ was jeered when it was given the festival’s highest honour the Palme d'Or in 1994.

Among others suffering the same fate have been Terrence Malick’s 'The Tree of Life’, Lars Von Trier’s 'Antichrist’, and, famously, 'Taxi Driver’.

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