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Year (Jahr): 2025
Release Date (Veröffentlichungsdatum): 2025-10-15
Duration (Spieldauer): 128 min

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IMDB: 6.6 | Rotten Tomatoes: 91% | Metascore: 76% | TMDB: 6.4
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Director (Regie): Kristen Stewart
Actors (Schauspieler): Imogen Poots, Tom Sturridge, Thora Birch
Writers (Drehbuch): Kristen Stewart, Andy Mingo, Lidia Yuknavitch
Title (Originaltitel): The Chronology of Water
Country (Land): United States of America, France, Latvia, Switzerland
Original language (Original-Sprache): English

“The Chronology of Water” is not interested in the usual inspirational-by-numbers arc. It starts in 1970s Oregon, where Lidia grows up inside a home soaked in alcohol and violence. Fun backdrop, right. The only place that feels even remotely safe is the water. As a scholarship swimmer, she can hold herself together with strokes and breath. Then the moment she’s out of the pool, the familiar damage snaps back into place.

What changes is not fate. It’s writing. Lidia turns what happened to her into language, and gradually stops outsourcing her story to the people who hurt her. The directing style from Kristen Stewart keeps things close and fragmented, like memory refusing to line up politely.

Imogen Poots plays the lead with physical urgency and zero cushioning. This one is raw, tense, and surprisingly specific, like it’s telling you the truth even when the truth is awkward.
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Der Film sitzt dir nicht gemütlich auf dem Sofa. „The Chronology of Water“ nimmt ein ziemlich klaustrophobes Zuhause in den 1970ern in Oregon als Ausgangspunkt. Alkohol, Gewalt, diese unschönen Grundierungen. Und dann gibt es da einen Gegenpol: Wasser. Als talentierte Schwimmerin wirkt Lidia kurz stabil, fast wie eine eigene Verabredung mit dem Leben. Aber außerhalb des Beckens springen die alten Muster sofort wieder an.

Der Kniff des Ganzen: Kristen Stewart macht daraus kein glattes Biopic mit moralischem Ende. Stattdessen wird erzählt, wie Erinnerungen wirklich funktionieren. Bruchstücke, Rhythmus, Druck. Erst als Lidia anfängt zu schreiben, findet sie Worte für das, was sonst nur im Körper rumort. Keine Heilungsfantasie. Eher: Kontrolle zurückholen, Satz für Satz. Imogen Poots bringt dabei eine rohe Intensität mit, die nicht nett sein will.

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00:07I thought about starting at the beginning.
00:15Oh, get her mic, get her mic!
00:21That's not how I remember it.
00:28That's not how I remember it.
00:32It's all a series of fragments.
00:37Keep your head up!
00:41Repetitions.
00:43Smiley face.
00:45Patterns.
00:46Formations.
00:48There are moments.
00:49Look at me.
00:51Between years.
00:53Look at me.
00:54Service with great force.
00:59What?
01:05No one is big enough to hold what happens to us.
01:10No one's big enough to hold what happens to us.
01:17It's in your hands.
01:22People will say to me all the time,
01:24did the things in your stories actually happen?
01:31I don't know.
01:41Memories are stories.
01:47So you better come up with one you can live with.
01:49You better go there.
01:49I can live with them.
01:51You better come up with one you can live with.
01:55I want to give them my book.
01:55I love you.
01:55You better come up with one you because you could do it.
01:56It's totally ok even if you can live with.
01:56Let's go do it.
01:56What is your guess, me Right?
01:57cute, you are good.
01:57How are you really Osmans for?
01:58So you can give us the olv.
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