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Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut at Cannes leaves her feeling like a proud parent | Hollywood

Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut at Cannes leaves her feeling like a proud parent | Hollywood

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* Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut at Cannes leaves her feeling like a proud parent Adapted from memoir on escaping abuse through swimming * Imogen Poots praised for performance * Film competes in Un Certain Regard art-house section By Hanna Rantala and Miranda Murray CANNES, France, – Kristen Stewart said on Saturday that making her directorial debut with “The Chronology of Water” at the Cannes Film Festival felt like sending a child off to school for the first time. “I’m so proud of it. It’s like watching your kid go to school,” Stewart told Reuters the day after her film’s premiere. “It feels like all of a sudden the things that I’ve wanted to do for just so long happened all at the same time,” said the actor who rose to fame with the “Twilight” series and received an Oscar nomination for her performance as Britain’s Princess Diana in the film “Spencer.” “My head is spinning, but in the best way,” she added. Her film is adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir of the same name …

Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut at Cannes leaves her feeling like a proud parent | Hollywood

Kristen Stewart was always ready to direct | Hollywood

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CANNES, France — Kristen Stewart has been talking about directing as long as she’s been acting. Not many people encouraged it. Kristen Stewart was always ready to direct “I spoke to other actors when I was really little because I was always like: ‘I want to direct movies!’” Stewart recalls. “I was fully set down by several people who were like, ‘Why?’ and ‘No.’ It’s such a fallacy that you need to have an unbelievable tool kit or some kind of credential. It really is if you have something to say, then a movie can fall out of you very elegantly.” You wouldn’t necessarily say that Stewart’s feature directing debut, “The Chronology of Water,” elegantly fell out of her at the Cannes Film Festival. She arrived in Cannes after a frantic rush to complete the film, an adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir, starring Imogen Poots. Sitting on a balcony overlooking the Croisette, Stewart says she finished the film “30 seconds before I got on an airplane.” “It was eight years in the making and …