NEW PROJECT: Kristen to star in Olivier Assaya's new film 'Spiritual World'

Kristen Stewart, Vicky Krieps, Niels Schneider, Riley Keough, Wagner Moura and German cinema legend Barbara Sukowa, best known for her landmark collaborations with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Margarethe von Trotta are among the alluring players that will step into the supernatural and fantastic worlds that Olivier Assayas built in Irma Vep and Personal Shopper. Titled Spiritual World, Stewart plays Ada, a haunted young woman with clairvoyant powers who is visited by mysterious premonitions.

Curiosa Films’ Olivier Delbosc and ARTE France are producing. Production is set for a February start date moving into Avril in parts of France and Germany. This is Stewart’s third pairing with Assayas – they collaborated on 2014’s Clouds of Sils Maria and 2016’s Personal Shopper.

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Video: Kristen interviews Vicky Krieps for her movie 'Corsage'

 

Kristen Stewart here conducts an in-depth interview with Vicky Krieps, who shines as Empress Elisabeth in Corsage, the IFC film which has put the actress and director Marie Kreutzer in Oscar contention for a film shortlisted as Austria’s pic for Best International film. Stewart is a big fan of the film, and draws out how Krieps hatched the idea and wore down the director to take the film. They also discuss the importance of telling stories from a woman’s perspective. They also touch briefly touch on the shock of discovering that Florian Teichtmeister, who plays Krieps’ husband Emperor Franz Joseph in a supporting role, was charged with possessing child pornography. The actor, who reportedly has admitted his guilt, will go on trial February 8 after being apprehended with 58,000 files of pornographic depictions of minors as young as 14. 

Corsage has won awards at Cannes, London and the European Film Awards, and it is Austria’s shortlisted pick for the international Oscar. Krieps won the acting prize at Cannes and is a Film Spirit Award Nominee. 

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