Personal Shopper (2016)
Maureen, mid-20s, is a personal shopper for a media celebrity. The job pays for her stay in Paris, a city she refuses to leave until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.
In Personal Shopper, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “haunted paris”. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing grief, identity, afterlife, memory, mystery.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Others (2001)consciousness in the dead · haunted afterlife house
Casper (1995)consciousness in the dead · haunted manor afterlife
When Marnie Was There (2014)consciousness in the dead · spirit-heritage
All of Us Strangers (2023)consciousness in the dead · ghostly memory
Just Like Heaven (2005)consciousness in the dead · afterlife apartment
Umma (2022)consciousness in the dead · haunted heritage farmSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Penguin Highway (2018)consciousness carried elsewhere · grief, identity
Solaris (1972)consciousness in aliens · grief, identity
Solaris (2002)consciousness in aliens · grief, identity
MirrorMask (2005)consciousness in monsters · grief, identity
Robot Dreams (2023)consciousness in animals · grief, identity
Twin Peaks (1989)consciousness carried elsewhere · identity, memorySame people
Shared director or cast.
