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‘The Chronology Of Water’ Review: Kristen Stewart’s Directing Debut Is A Raw And Intricately Constructed Take On A Biopic – Cannes Film Festival
With The Chronology of Water, director Kristen Stewart infuses what could be a conventionally sequential biopic into splinters, shards and ripples.
As a director, she infuses The Chronology of Water – an adaptation of an impressionistic memoir by cult writer Lidia Yuknavitch, screening in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section – with that same personal electricity, blasting what could be a conventionally sequential biopic into splinters, shards and ripples that can be pieced together as we go. She remembers, in the bits of memory that float through the narrative, that Claudia left in her teens “to save her own life”; she would be sent to her room to give her father (Michael Epp, terrifying) free rein to beat, harangue and otherwise abuse the sister who would later take her place. Lidia’s liberation from the past – real or, as she suggests in her voice-over, reshaped into a narrative she is prepared to own – begins when she joins a college writing class in Oregon with Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
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