Adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch’s acclaimed 2011 memoir of the same name, the film stars Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Nick Cave's son Earl Cave and Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon.

Kristen Stewart’s feature directorial debut The Chronology Of Water was greeted by a 6 1/2-minute ovation by an enthusiastic audience in Cannes.

Imogen Poots seizes the screen as Lidia Yuknavitch, who embraces swimming and sex and drugs and anger, all to make herself whole.