Rencontre avec Kristen Stewart

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Kristen Stewart présente cette année dans la section Un Certain Regard son premier long métrage “The Chronology of Water”. Une adaptation radicale et poétique du texte autobiographique de Lidia Yuknavitch. Devant la caméra des Inrocks, la réalisatrice évoque l’aspect politique et féministe de son film. “Avoir un corps féminin est un acte politique”.

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00:00Vous savez, c'est bon de trouver un moyen de...

00:03Juste de sort of stand-up, lightz-your-hair-on-fire,

00:05take-off-all-your-clothes,

00:07et juste de venir vraiment hard en public.

00:09Et d'être comme, « Look, c'est cool, actually!

00:11C'est OK! »

00:14Pour mon premier film, je me suis dit, « It has to be that! »

00:23Juste comment stifling it is to live in a female body

00:25and have, like, your inner voice be told to just shut up constantly.

00:28Yeah, walking around with a female body is a political act.

00:31You gotta have some real velocity to keep standing up.

00:34Like, and it sounds so dramatic, it's just that it's true.

00:37You said that the book had one of your favorite books.

00:40Yeah, I think, I think I read the book when I was like,

00:43I think I was like 25.

00:44I had already had, like, a long career

00:47and people ask me questions and give me a stage in which to speak

00:52and I still feel like I hadn't really said much.

00:56Like, I hadn't really been very honest even though I do try and be honest, like, to a fault.

01:02There are things that feel, like, you know, steeped in shame

01:06that you're just really not supposed to articulate.

01:08Because if you say things too harshly, people don't listen.

01:11I think the whole point of this is to have it be beautiful.

01:14It's like some things that are violent can be stunning.

01:17It's like the hairline fracture between pain and pleasure is so obvious.

01:22And so it's like, it's okay that bad things happen to you.

01:26If you can sort of rebrand them, repossess them through words and ask for what you want,

01:31you can have anything and it's not weird.

01:34You know, it's like just de-stigmatizing really normal, gross experiences,

01:40sexual experiences that everyone has.

01:42Jesus Christ, like, even if you've not been abused in that way,

01:45even if you've not had, like, a particular experience with violation,

01:48as a woman, as a queer person, the violation is unending and it's every day.

01:53And it's in the images that we consume, it's in every conversation in the media.

01:58It's in our patriarchal, oppressed society.

02:00Like, I say that and people go, oh, feminist bullshit.

02:03You know, it's nice to maybe find a way to just to sort of stand up,

02:07light your hair on fire, take off all your clothes and just come really hard in public

02:12and be like, look, it's cool, actually. It's okay.

02:15Like, that, I'm like, for my first movie, I was just like, it has to be that.

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