Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut at Cannes leaves her feeling like a proud dad or mum | Hollywood

Tailored from memoir on escaping abuse by way of swimming

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Imogen Poots praised for efficiency

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Movie competes in Un Sure Regard art-house part

By Hanna Rantala and Miranda Murray

CANNES, France, – Kristen Stewart mentioned on Saturday that making her directorial debut with “The Chronology of Water” on the Cannes Movie Competition felt like sending a toddler off to highschool for the primary time.

“I am so happy with it. It is like watching your child go to highschool,” Stewart informed Reuters the day after her movie’s premiere.

“It looks like swiftly the issues that I’ve needed to do for simply so lengthy occurred all on the identical time,” mentioned the actor who rose to fame with the “Twilight” collection and obtained an Oscar nomination for her efficiency as Britain’s Princess Diana within the movie “Spencer.”

“My head is spinning, however in one of the best ways,” she added.

Her movie is customized from Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir of the identical identify that chronicles the creator’s try to flee an abusive family by way of aggressive swimming within the Eighties and eventual path to turning into a revered creator.

British actor Imogen Poots, recognized for “Inexperienced Room” and “28 Weeks Later,” stars as Yuknavitch in what The Rolling Stone lauded as an “all-or-nothing sort of efficiency.”

“There is a line within the e book that made me wish to make it a film, which is like, ‘Are you able to maintain life and demise in the identical sentence?’ And that is what cinema can do,” mentioned Stewart.

“With this film, we will simply converse to the truth that the issues that occur do not matter as a lot as the way you course of these issues and outline them inside your personal physique,” she added.

Stewart’s movie is competing within the second-tier Un Sure Regard part, the place actors Scarlett Johansson and Harris Dickinson are additionally marking their first time as administrators.

“The Chronology of Water” was met with constructive evaluations, with Deadline calling it a “uncooked and intricately constructed tackle a biopic” and The Guardian giving it three out of 5 stars.

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