‘The Chronology of Water’ Review: Kristen Stewart’s Directorial Debut Is a Stirring Drama of Abuse and Salvation, Told With Poetic Passion

She presents Lidia Yuknavitch’s story as a series of impressionistic closeup moments that sear themselves into you as if every shot were a sentence ripped from a hidden diary. This is the beauty of what movies can do. They can be voyeuristic and honest — give us privileged glimpses of the forbidden, of what people are really like, of all the muck and pain and yearning we cover up.

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