Timeline of Water: What does the title of director Kristen Stewart’s film mean?

It was one of the events of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, which was marked by the first feature films of actors and actresses: Kristen Stewart’s baptism of fire. Who hasn’t chosen the easy way by getting hold of Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoirs, “Fluid Mechanics”A rough, intense and unpredictable filmmaking that is very surprising in its sound and image portrayal of the main character’s psychology. In short, an opus that lives up to its director and in which Imogen Poots gives what is arguably the greatest performance of her career.

But what does the title Water Chronology mean? When the end credits begin, these words have never been spoken, in the dialogues or in the voice that accompanies the story, and therefore the audience is left without an answer to this topic. Hence our desire to ask the question, not of Kristen Stewart, with whom our already short interview time this morning at Cannes went too quickly, but of her lead actress, Imogen Poots.

“There is a saying that one never steps in the same river twice because the water flows”He explains. “Lydia talks a lot about water, it’s a theme she can’t let go of in everything she writes. Just like swimming is a part of her soul. Water Chronology also deals with these concepts of flow, recalibration, reflection, because water reflects light in different ways depending on the angle you place yourself in. That the truth is your experience can change.”

Comments collected by Maximilien Pierret in Cannes on May 17, 2025