After speaking for years about her robust want to direct a movie adaptation of Portland-based writer Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir, “The Chronology of Water,” a primary picture of actress Kristen Stewart on set of the film has been revealed by Variety, and different leisure information websites.
In the picture, Stewart, carrying headphones, is seen subsequent to the film’s star, Imogen Poots. Known for her roles in such various initiatives as “Twilight,” “Love Lies Bleeding,” “Spencer” and “Happiest Season,” Stewart makes her debut as a characteristic film director with “The Chronology of Water.” She additionally co-wrote the screenplay with Andy Mingo, who is married to Yuknavitch.
The forged consists of Poots, Thora Birch, Earl Cave, Michael Epp, Susannah Flood, Kim Gordon and Jim Belushi, who has appeared in one other venture with an Oregon connection, “Growing Belushi,” a TV collection concerning the actor’s southern Oregon hashish enterprise.
The official synopsis for “The Chronology of Water,” as Variety says, displays that it’s a narrative “about turning trauma into art,” because it follows Yuknavitch “from her earliest childhood memories in the Pacific Northwest, through explosive misfires and mistakes, children that almost-were, toxic relationships, art heroes, wins and losses.”
The synopsis additionally says of the story that it “drifts in the water of Lidia’s memories on her journey to become a professional writer, repossessing her own story by writing one she can live with,” including that “‘The Chronology of Water’ is an in-depth exploration of sexuality, of creativity, an unflinching stare at all the gory details of having a female body and a sensitive depiction of the emotional vocabulary of youth.”
The Variety article additionally notes that in a canopy story for the publication in January, Stewart introduced “that she would refuse to make another movie until ‘The Chronology of Water’ was finished.”
“The Chronology of Water” wrapped in July after filming for six weeks in Latvia and Malta, in keeping with Variety. There’s no phrase but on when it's going to open in theaters.
— Kristi Turnquist covers options and leisure. Reach her at 503-221-8227, [email protected] or @Kristiturnquist
Our journalism wants your help. Please turn out to be a subscriber right now at OregonDwell.com/subscribe