Interview With "The Chronology Of Water" Filmmaker Kristen Stewart & Star Imogen Poots

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

"The Chronology Of Water" is a biographical psychological drama film written for the screen, co-produced, and directed by Kristen Stewart in her feature film directorial debut, based on the 2011 book of the same name by Lidia Yuknavitch. It stars Imogen Poots as Yuknavitch, along with Thora Birch, Susannah Flood, Tom Sturridge, Kim Gordon, Michael Epp, Earl Cave, Esmé Creed-Miles, and Jim Belushi in supporting roles. The film had its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it received positive reviews from critics. Stewart and Poots were both kind enough to spend some time talking with us about their work and experiences making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in NY and LA theaters and will expand nationwide on January 9th from The Forge. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Emma Sassick's interview with the director and writer of the film The Chronology of Water, Kristen Stewart, and the film star, Imboge and Putes.
0:12.8	I thought about starting at the beginning.
0:20.5	Oh, get her,, get her my...
0:21.6	That's not how I remember it.
0:31.6	That's not how I remember it.
0:34.6	It's all a series.
0:39.3	Fragments.
0:42.3	Keep your head up!
0:46.3	Repetitions.
0:48.3	Smiley face.
0:50.3	Patterns, formations.
0:52.3	There are moments. Look at me.
0:56.0	Between years.
0:58.0	Look at me.
0:59.0	It's surfaced with great force.
1:05.0	What?
1:10.0	No one is big enough to hold what happens to us.
1:15.6	No one's big enough to hold what happens to us.
1:18.6	It's in your hands.
1:23.6	People say to me all the time,
1:28.3	Do the things in your stories actually happen?
1:33.3	I don't know.
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