The Chronology of Water
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A woman, after an abusive childhood, escapes into competitive swimming, sexual experimentation, toxic relationships, and addiction before finding her voice through writing.
A woman, after an abusive childhood, escapes into competitive swimming, sexual experimentation, toxic relationships, and addiction before finding her voice through writing.
The Chronology of Water stars Imogen Poots, Thora Birch and Earl Cave, and was adapted from the 2011 memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, who was abused by her father as a child and thenwho won a swimming scholarship to college before going off the rails. Peter Bradshaw, the Guardian’s chief film critic, gave the film a positive review, describing it as “a poetry-slam of pain and autobiographical outrage, recounting a writer’s journey towards recovering the raw material of experience to be sifted and recycled into literary success”.
Imogen Poots in The Chronology of Water. Photograph: Courtesy: Cannes film festival.The film shows how in the water she feels free; swimming laps against the clock gives her a purpose and an escape – a cancellation of identity. But now Lidia has a terrible secret: it is not merely that she is an abuse survivor – she masturbates incessantly thinking about it, and utterly despises her weak-beta male boyfriend (Earl Cave) for being nice and gentle.
