Kristen Stewart on her filmmaking debut ‘Why The Chronology of Water’ became personal
Even if you don’t have the specific relationship to like abuse that this woman does, if you have been walking around the earth with a female body for the last, you know, right now, whenever, being taken from being told to shut the up, you know, like it’s it’s pervasive. It’s just a fact. It’s not even like this isn’t my opinion. This is every like I think um there are certain p pieces of work that uh allow you to exist, you know, like all of a sudden you go, “Wow, me. that is a mirror and we are so much stronger together. And uh most of like a lot of my favorite movies and a lot of my favorite books are about process and um I didn’t want to make a movie about the things that happened to this woman. I wanted to make a movie about what we can do to the things that happened to us. Iterate. Metamorphosize.
At the #CannesFilmFestival, Kristen Stewart shares how her filmmaking debut, ‘The Chronology of Water,’ explores the female experience and personal transformation. The adaptation stars Imogen Poots as a young woman who finds her voice through writing and salvation in swimming.
“I didn’t want to make a movie about the things that happened to this woman. I wanted to make a movie about what we can do to the things that happened to us.”
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