Overview
- Stewart makes her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir.
- The Observer’s Feb. 6 review hails an ambitious, abrasive auteur statement, while the New Statesman on Feb. 5 calls the film “startlingly good.”
- Reviews emphasize a fractured structure and memory-led design shot on textured 16mm, with comparisons to Terrence Malick’s visual language.
- Imogen Poots’s performance as Lidia is widely praised as the film’s anchor, with credit also given to editor Olivia Neergaard-Holm and cinematographer Corey C. Waters.
- The film is currently in U.S. cinemas after a 2025 Cannes premiere and a nationwide release in January 2026.