Kristen Stewart's directorial debut, The Age of Water, held a standing ovation for more than four minutes on Friday night at the Cannes Film Festival and opened many people's eyes.

The knockout round of Imogen Pots is undoubtedly the highlight of Stewart's adaptation from Lidia Yuknavitch's 2011 memoir of the same name, but so is her directing style - original, artistic and infinite. Pots plays Yuknavitch's Stewart nonlinear plays the life of the best-selling writer, including her father's sexual abuse scenes and her spiral abuse scenes, juxtaposed with the poetic redemption she found in the water.

As the house lights rose, Stewart wore stylish white shorts and a matching baseball cap - embraced everyone in her cast and crew and turned his attention to them. After kissing his wife Dylan Meyer, she allowed her spotlight to shine on her, accepting a brief speech from Cannes chief Thierry Fremaux.

"It's an absolutely crazy, surreal experience to be able to watch it with all of you here. We finished the movie like five minutes ago and haven't even finished it yet. We just slipped under this fucking closed door, damn door, thank you," Stewart said to Frema, jumping on his arm.

The long work passion project world premiered by a certain view of the festival, and this year also included debuts by other actors such as Scarlett Johansson (“Eleanor the Great”) and Harris Dickinson (“urchin”). In addition to the director, Stewart also co-wrote the script for the film with Yuknavitch's husband Andy Mingo.

Stewart first announced the development of the "water chronology" in 2018. type Cover Story In January 2024, Stewart revealed that she had been working hard to fund the film and refused to perform in another film until she was able to complete the "Age of Water". She was able to shoot six weeks of films in Latvia and Malta in the summer of 2024. The cast also includes Thora Birch, Earl Cave, Michael Epp, Susannah Flood, Kim Gordon and Jim Belushi.

Speech type, Stewart is honestly working to fund the film. Raising funds for an original idea rather than based on a proven genre or pre-existing IP is "nearly impossible."

"I think there is a kind of female language that has not been written yet," Stewart said. "The type of film I want to make has a certain body, and I think on a slippery line, it's not attractive to quotes of "buyers," but in action, it's totally moving moves. It's not easy to sell. It's not about the plot. It's not about the person's self-kindness and context, why his own voice hides his life."

type In April, there were rumors that her film will premiere in Cannes. The director said she is competing for post-production to produce a festival lineup.

"Well, it's a matter of timing. Movies, like coronation." "It's one of those stories you hear - every filmmaker I'm eager to do a certain deadline for the Cannes Film Festival under the closing ceremony. And I don't know if I'll be there.

"The age of water" is seeking distribution in Cannes.