{"id":4218,"date":"2017-04-20T23:59:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T03:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2022-02-28T11:29:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T16:29:04","slug":"movienight-thursday-april-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=4218","title":{"rendered":"Personal Shopper. Olivier comes a cropper. Again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4221\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shopper.jpg\" alt=\"shopper\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shopper.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shopper-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kristin Stewart. What can I say? Yes, she makes for an easy caricature, with the angsty slouch, hipster sweaters, autonomously expressive eyebrows, and short, choppy dialogue, but let&#8217;s face it: she is <em>it <\/em>and this is her best work to date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Still stinging from the disappointment of director Olivier Assayas&#8217; much hyped <em>The Clouds of Sils Maria <\/em>last year (I had an advance copy, the critics loved it, and I was excited to debut new content at MovieNight, but the movie was, well&#8230; bad), I was intrigued to see whether he had regained his focus.\u00a0 I will say this: &#8220;Phew! Saved by Stew&#8221;&#8230; it&#8217;s hard not to be glued to a screen inhabited, almost without pause, by Ms. Stewart (clothed or not), but beyond that <em>Personal Shopper<\/em> is a rather shallow vehicle which perhaps aims to exploit her <em>Twilight<\/em> appeal&#8230; it&#8217;s punctuated by rather banal visits from the &#8220;other side&#8221;. I wanted to be scared, but it just didn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">MovieNight was packed this week, and even if Personal Shopper didn&#8217;t get applause (as most of our features do), it certainly entertained. The real star of the evening, though, was our pre-movie short, <em>YLVIS<\/em>, in which astronauts from earth travel through the galaxy, encountering alien creatures, and extolling the virtues of the human male genitalia. See it <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/111523175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4714782\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-348 size-full\" title=\"imdb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/imdb.gif\" alt=\"imdb\" width=\"31\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristin Stewart. What can I say? Yes, she makes for an easy caricature, with the angsty slouch, hipster sweaters, autonomously expressive eyebrows, and short, choppy dialogue, but let&#8217;s face it: she is it and this is her best work to date. Still stinging from the disappointment of director Olivier Assayas&#8217; much hyped The Clouds of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=4218\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Personal Shopper. Olivier comes a cropper. Again.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4218"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4329,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions\/4329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}