The Chronology of Water

Flicks with The Film Snob

May 04 2026 | 00:03:30

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Show Notes

The Chronology of Water, Kristen Stewart’s first feature film as a director, is an adaptation of a memoir by the same title from fiction writer, poet, and essayist Lidia Yuknavitch. Yuknavitch grew up in San Francisco and Florida in the 1960s and ‘70s, was encouraged by a supportive school coach to become a competitive swimmer, and got a sports scholarship to a college in Austin, whereupon her addiction to alcohol and other drugs derailed her potential Olympics career. She then careened through relationships, sexual acting out, and self-harm, until—moving to Oregon, she discovered that she could write—and after much effort,…

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