Screening at Cannes: Directing Debuts From Kristen Stewart, Scarlett Johannson and Harris Dickinson

Screening at Cannes: Directing Debuts from Kristen Stewart, Scarlett Johannson and Harris Dickinson

“Are you fucking kidding me? Okaay,” crowed Kristen Stewart at the world premiere of The Chronology of Water, her debut as a bona-fide filmmaker after eight years of struggling to adapt Lidia Yukovich’s acclaimed memoir for the big screen. Vibrating with nervous excitement during her opening remarks, she thanked all of her collaborators with a fierce joy, ending with a dedication to the book’s author. “To Lidia Yuknavitch,” she said, “for writin…

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Cannes Review: The Chronology of Water is Kristen Stewart’s Elemental Calling Card for Directorial Greatness

Book adaptations yield two kinds of films: those that transliterate and those that translate. While the former insist on keeping the source material’s spirit at the cost of a rendition so faithful it comes to stage things rigidly, like a direct transplant from page to screen, the latter trust both mediums so completely, allowing for some poetic gap between book and film as if translating an idiom from one language to another. Adaptation can be a…