Kristen Stewart’s function directorial debut The Chronology of Water unspooled on the Cannes Movie Pageant on Friday night time and was greeted by a 6 1/2-minute ovation by an enthusiastic viewers.
Stewart’s long-gestating challenge, tailored from Lidia Yuknavitch’s bestselling 2011 memoir, went down properly within the room, and Stewart was mobbed by her followers within the Grand Lumiere Theater, making it powerful 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, by means of 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 Pageant 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 type that was unruly and, once more, laborious to pin down.”
She additionally mentioned that the eight-year-in-the-planning challenge “is about beginning, dying and rebirth, and we type of adopted that cycle. I feel you possibly can really feel it within the end result. On the time, it harm quite a bit. The largest wound of my ‘inventive’ life to date. And by far my favourite scar.”
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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