Cannes: Kristen Stewart described her directorial debut with The Chronology of Water at the Cannes Film Festival as an emotional milestone, likening it to “watching your kid go to school” for the first time.
“I’m so proud of it. It’s like watching your kid go to school,” Stewart told Reuters the day after her film’s premiere.
She added, “It feels like all of a sudden the things that I’ve wanted to do for just so long happened all at the same time.” The actor, known for her breakout role in the Twilight series and her Oscar-nominated portrayal of Princess Diana in Spencer, said, “My head is spinning, but in the best way.”
The Chronology of Water adapts Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir, which recounts her escape from an abusive household through competitive swimming in the 1980s and her journey to becoming an acclaimed author. British actor Imogen Poots, recognized for Green Room and 28 Weeks Later, stars as Yuknavitch, delivering what Rolling Stone called an “all-or-nothing type of performance.”
“There’s a line in the book that made me want to make it a movie, which is like, ‘Can you hold life and death in the same sentence?’ And that’s what cinema can do,” Stewart explained. She added, “With this movie, we can just speak to the fact that the things that happen don’t matter as much as how you process those things and define them within your own body.”
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Stewart’s film is competing in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section, known as the festival’s second-tier competition, alongside other directorial debuts from actors Scarlett Johansson and Harris Dickinson.
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The Chronology of Water has received positive reviews, with Deadline praising it as a “raw and intricately constructed take on a biopic,” while The Guardian awarded it three out of five stars.
