'Personal Shopping' Starring Kristen Stewart Booed at Cannes
One of the entries in this year's Cannes Film Festival is a film by Olivier Assayas called "Personal Shopper." Although the filmmaker isn't familiar to mainstream and casual moviegoers, the lead actress certainly rings a bell: Kristen Stewart.
Unlike other film festivals, Cannes is known for its overly tough and hard-hitting crowd of film critics, and it looked like Assayas' entry is one of the first to suffer and experience the wrath from this crowd.
Variety first reported about the unfriendly response from the crowd on a film that revolves around a personal shopper (Stewart) who has the uncanny ability to communicate with the dead, who also by day happens to be working in the fashion industry in Paris.
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But if it serves as any consolation for Stewart and the rest of the cast, this isn't actually the first time that the Cannes audience has been so critical of an entry to the most prestigious film festival in the world.
According to Newsweek, last year's "The Sea of Trees," which starred another Hollywood big-timer in Matthew McConaughey also received the same treatment, as well as the previous films that actually earned a lot at the box office, including but not limited to The Da Vinci Code and Southland Tales, the same report said.
Unfortunately for Stewart, this also isn't the first time she became part of a film that earned negative comments from critics in the same festival and in the same year. Well, at least she's not directly accused of child abuse, though the director of another film where she also stars, "Café Society," is marred by the said allegations. That director happens to be legendary filmmaker Woody Allen, who was once accused by his own daughter, Dylan, of sexually abusing her when she was still seven years old.
In spite of the boos "Personal Shopper" received from the crowd, Chicago Tribune reported that Stewart's performance, including that of "Café Society," was praised by several film experts and observers.
