“It has incest, menstruation and it’s hard to watch”: Kristen Stewart gives the first details about her directorial debut and promises to leave no one indifferent – Cinema News

Stewart will make the leap to the other side of the camera by adapting Lidia Yuknavitc’s autobiography, “The Chronology of Water.”

Kristen Stewart wants to continue asserting herself as one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, but giving her career a small turnaround. If until now she had shown incredible evolution in front of the cameras, where she has just made us fall in love once again with her role in the fantastic Love Lies Bleeding, the actress will take the leap to the other side of the lens to direct her first feature film.

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Stewart’s directorial debut will be the adaptation of “The Chronology of Water”, memoir by swimmer turned writer Lidia Yuknavitc, for a film that, as she suggested in an interview with Porter, will not leave us indifferent. This is how she described the keys to the project and her dubious expectations regarding the public.

My film is about incest and menstruation and a woman violently taking back her voice and body, and it’s, at times, hard to watch… but it’s going to be a thrilling ride. And I think that’s commercial, but I don’t think I have any idea what that means. I think people would like to see that, but then… I think maybe people would want to watch movies about Jesus and dogs

To give us a better idea of ​​the material the filmmaker will work with, the book’s synopsis goes something like this.

This is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch masterfully guides the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and family from the perspective of an all-around swimmer. The life she became an artist. Her story traces the effect of extreme pain on the developing sexuality of a young woman who some define as non-traditional due to her attraction to both men and women. Her emergence as a writer evolves at the same time and takes the narrator on a journey. of addiction, self-destruction, and ultimately survival that ultimately takes the form of love and motherhood

Additionally, Stewart opened up about her evolution within the industry and the approach she now takes as a filmmaker to projects, as opposed to her previous outlook as an actress.

[Dirigir] It’s something that makes you uncomfortable when you talk about it, because it’s hard to make anything happen. As an actress, I have to serve other people’s visions as an actress. …even if you don’t like what you’re doing, I think it’s cool that as I get older, I prefer to adapt my experiences into results-focused goals rather than just saying, ‘This will be good for me now’

We’ll see how she does in her first experience as a director, but, from today onwards, all the interest in the world is in seeing what Kristen Stewart surprises us with.

*Translation from a partner website of QuandoCinema