Kristen Stewart’s function directorial debut The Chronology of Water unspooled on the Cannes Movie Competition on Friday evening and was greeted by a 6½-minute ovation by an enthusiastic viewers.
Stewart’s long-gestating mission, tailored from Lidia Yuknavitch’s bestselling 2011 memoir, went down nicely within the room, and Stewart was mobbed by her followers within the Grand Lumiere Theater, making it robust to get out of the venue.
Stewart took screenplay co-writing credit with Andy Mingo on the pic, which stars Imogen Poots within the story of turning trauma into artwork that’s enjoying within the Un Sure Regard strand. The story follows protagonist Lidia from her earliest childhood recollections within the Pacific Northwest, via explosive misfires and errors, youngsters that almost-were, poisonous relationships, artwork heroes, wins and losses. Jim Belushi and Thora Birch additionally star.
Stewart instructed the Cannes Movie Competition that the film is “about iteration. Getting up and making an attempt once more. Repossessing your physique, your wishes, your ambitions and your goals. I wished to create a kind that was unruly and, once more, arduous to pin down.”
She additionally stated that the eight-year-in-the-planning mission “is about start, dying and rebirth, and we kind of adopted that cycle. I believe you may really feel it within the end result. On the time, it damage quite a bit. The most important wound of my ‘inventive’ life up to now. And by far my favourite scar.”
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Stewart is not any stranger to Cannes, having starred in such movies right here as David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future (2022), Woody Allen’s Cafe Society (2016) and Olivier Assayas’ Private Shopper (2016) and Clouds of Sils Maria (2014). She gained the Greatest Supporting Actress César Award for the latter.
The Chronology of Water is produced by Charles Gillibert (CG Cinema Worldwide); Yulia Zayceva, Max Pavlov and Svetlana Punte (Forma Professional Movies); Michael Pruss and Rebecca Feuer (Scott Free); and Stewart, Maggie McLean and Dylan Meyer (Nevermind Photos) and Mingo.
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