Kristen Stewart: 'Being a woman is a violent experience'

“I can’t wait to make 10 more movies,” Kristen Stewart told AFP the morning after making what Rolling Stone called “one hell of a directorial debut” at the recent Cannes film festival.

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Nor can film critics judging from the rave reviews of “The Chronology of Water,” her startling take on the American swimmer Lidia Yuknavitch’s visceral memoir of surviving abuse as a child.

All the producers who Stewart said passed on her script, saying its subject matter made it “really unattractive” to audiences, must now be crying into their champagne.

Variety called it “a stirring drama of abuse and salvation, told with poetic passion,” while Indiewire critic David Ehrlich said “there isn’t a single millisecond of this movie that doesn’t bristle with the raw energy of an artist.”

The fact that she has got such notices with what is normally a no-no subject in Hollywood — and with an avant-garde approach to the storytelling — is remarkable.

“I definitely don’t consider myself a part of the entertainment industry,” said the “Twilight” saga star.

And those looking for something light and frothy would do better to avoid her unflinching film. Stewart has long been obsessed with the story and with Yuknavitch’s writing, and fought for years to make the movie her way.