The Chronology of Water (2025)
you're on your own, kid
I enter the theatre showing The Chronology of Water ten minutes into the film because I’d become so lost in attempting to navigate the Presidio and its winding not-roads through grass and hills. No one will move to let me sit, so one of the benevolent ushers puts me in an aisle seat that I don’t realize is marked for FILMMAKER GUESTS until halfway through. Kristen Stewart and Imogen Poots are somewhere in the building. There are, I learn, no FILMMAKER GUESTS.
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