Kristen Stewart Wins Award at Deauville Film Festival with The Chronology of Water
According to CinemaDrame News Agency, Kristen Stewart won the Revelation Award at the Deauville Film Festival in France for her film The Chronology of Water. Golshifteh Farahani served as the jury president for this edition of the festival.
The Twilight star said after receiving the award that making the film took eight years: “Just having the chance to make this film was enough for me. I know it’s common for new filmmakers to feel like they’re facing the impossible, but the hard battle for this movie felt deeply personal—not just as me, Kristen, but me as a girl.”
The Chronology of Water tells the story of a young woman named Lidia, played by Imogen Poots, who finds her place through writing, achieves redemption as a swimmer, and ultimately becomes a successful teacher, a mother, and a modern writer. Other cast members include Thora Birch, Earl Cave, Michael Uppendahl, Susanna Flod, Kim Gordon, and Jim Belushi. The screenplay was co-written by Andy Mingo and Stewart, based on the memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch.
She added: “And I know the subject and the form of the film mattered, but the reason was that I was trying to make a movie about bleeding, about the excavation and ascent needed to pull a voice out in a world so masterfully designed to silence us—it took eight fucking years.”
The Chronology of Water premiered earlier at the Cannes Film Festival. At this year’s Deauville Festival, Zoey Deutch won the Hollywood Rising Star Award.
