Cannes: Kristen Stewart debuts in the direction and reveals pride in the “new son”

Actress Kristen Stewart, 35, said on Saturday (17) that her debut with “The Chronology of Water” at the Cannes Festival was like sending a child to school for the first time.

“I’m very proud of it. It’s like seeing your child go to school,” Stewart told Reuters the day after.

“It seems that suddenly the things I wanted to do so long ago all happened at the same time,” said the actress who became famous with the series and received an Oscar nomination for her acting as Princess Diana of Britain in the movie “Spencer.”

“My head is spinning, but as well as possible,” she added.

Her film is adapted from the 2011 memories book by Lidia Yuknavitch, who tells the author’s attempt to escape an abusive home through competitive swimming in the 1980s and her eventual way to become a respected author.

British actress Imogen Poots, known as “Green Room” and “Extermination 2”, star as Yuknavitch in what Rolling Stone praised as a “performance of everything or nothing”.

“There is a phrase in the book that made me want to make a movie, which is like, ‘Can you hold life and death in the same sentence?’ And that’s what cinema can do, ”said Stewart.

“With this movie, we can simply talk about the fact that things that happen do not matter as much as the way you process these things and define them within your own body,” she added.

Stewart’s movie is competing in the second -ranked UN Rogard section, where actors Scarlett Johansson and Harris Dickinson are also marking their debut as directors.

“The Chronology of Water” received positive criticism, with Deadline calling him a “crude and intrinsically built approach to a biography” and The Guardian giving him three five-star.