Kristen Stewart's directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, is a raw and visceral film adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir. After eight years of struggle with financing and production, she fiercely committed to completing the project, even threatening to halt her acting career. The film captivates the audience with its exploration of intense themes such as pain, pleasure, and identity, culminating in a standing ovation at its Cannes premiere. Stewart discusses the significance of integrating Fiona Apple's music into the film and how her creative process has uniquely influenced her, even manifesting in new personal tattoos.
I refused to let it die even as I gained and lost financing and actors and department heads, threatening not to act again until I was able to finish it.
Chronology is messy, structurally and visually and viscerally, playing with time and space and memory and oozing with bodily fluids - tears, spit, sweat, come, pee, blood, vomit.
There are just certain voices that help you find yours. That is a really concise way of putting it - your taste is formed by the people that come before you.
I wanted to bring a little bit of the movie into my body.
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