โI canโt wait to make 10 more movies,โ Kristen Stewart said the morning after making what Rolling Stone magazine called โone hell of a directorial debutโ at the Cannes Film Festival.
Nor can film critics, judging from the rave reviews of The Chronology of Water, her startling take on the American swimmer Lidia Yuknavitchโs visceral memoir of surviving abuse as a child.
All the producers who Stewart said passed on her script, saying its subject matter made it โreally unattractiveโ to audiences, must now be crying into their champagne.
Variety magazine called it โa stirring drama of abuse and salvation, told with poetic passionโ, while Indiewire critic David Ehrlich said โthere isnโt a single millisecond of this movie that does not bristle with the raw energy of an artistโ.
The fact that she has got such notices with what is normally a no-no subject in Hollywood โ and with an avant-garde approach to the storytelling โ is remarkable.