« To gather life and death in one sentence »: Kristen Stewart presented his directorial debut in Cannes
The actress is known for her role in the Twilight series, as well as her incarnation as Princess Diana in Pablo Larene’s « Spencer », which brought her an Oscar nomination in 2022. Stuart’s first steps as a director were eight years ago with the short film Come Swim, which premiered in 2017. About then, the actress is adapted to adapting Lydia Yuknavic’s memoirs, released in 2011 with the same title.
« The Chronology of Water » is described by Hollywood Reporter as an unwavering story of sexual abuse in childhood, followed by years of addiction, sexual experiments and self -destruction before the author finds her voice and channel her pain in writing.
| « There is a reply in the book that made me turn it into a movie, namely: » Can you bring life and death in one sentence? And this is what cinema can do, « Stewart says. |
The role of Yuknavic on the film adaptation is the British actress Imogzhen Puts, known by the films « The Green Room » and « 28 weeks later ». According to Rolling Stone, her presentation is like « everything or nothing, » Reuters notes. The film was also greeted with positive reviews, as « Dedline » called it a raw and complex look at biography, and the Guardian gave him three of the five stars.
In her review of the Hollywood Reporter, he writes that the PUTS character and her sister are a collective image of all those women who are silent by shame or are permanently traumatized by violence over their bodies. « He enters deeply, even as he floods with soothing images of water, as the title suggests. » Enter. The water will keep you, « says Lydia at the end, which is exactly what the movie invites, in ways that may be provoking, but perhaps cathartic, » writes the Stuart movie.
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| « Few works are as personal as this first movie by Kristen Stewart, » the French « Vog » said of him and calls it « compelling », comparing her directorial techniques with those of Sofia Coppola and Jean-Luc Godard. |
« She fragments her story in five actions – or rather five heads. A way to never deviate too much from the edge and stay true to the text you adapt. Most of all – not to pass it, » Vog writes.
According to the newspaper, Stuart chooses to portray violence through sound, not by an image and rather flirts with the imagination of the audience, reaching the boundaries of horror, preferring to illustrate it with soft colors and stopping its camera at the last moment, just before it begins.
In Cannes, the actress said she had completed the film shortly before she got on the plane, quoting the AP. « My inexperience made this movie, » she adds. Stewart said she had long been dreaming of directing films, but in the industry they had always been promoted. According to her, it is a complete misconception that one must have a set of tools to do it and that the most important thing is to have something to say.
« I really wanted to do something that was not about what happened to this woman, but about what she did with what was happening to her, and what writing could do for you, » Stuart adds to adapt to the story of Lydia Yuknavic. « Our production was a shipwreck, so we had to reassemble the boat again, » Stewart said about the installation process. « There was no way to make this movie in more normal circumstances, » Stewart says. « Because then it would be too normal. »
