The Forge has released a trailer for The Chronology of Water, based on Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir. Deadline reported that Kristen Stewart, who adapted the screenplay, made her feature film directing debut on the project, which had its world premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The movie opens in New York and Los Angeles theaters on December 5 before a national release on January 9.
Imogen Poots stars as Lidia, "a young woman who finds escape from an abusive father through competitive swimming in the 1980s. After her athletic dreams are derailed, she navigates love, loss, addiction, sexuality and her own self-destructive impulses while discovering her voice, and healing, through the transformative act of writing," Deadline noted. The cast also includes Thora Birch, Jim Belushi, Earl Cave, Tom Sturridge, Charlie Carrick, and Kim Gordon.
"The reason that I wanted to make this was to screw with form, because it's not about what happened to Lidia Yuknavitch, it's what happens to us all and how we can internalize that violence," Stewart said in Cannes. "I know it sounds dramatic, but it's true. It's incredibly violent to be a woman."