Overview
- Stewart’s feature directorial debut adapts Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir, with Imogen Poots starring as a version of the author.
- The film begins a one-week qualifying run in New York and Los Angeles on December 5, with a wider U.S. release set for January 9.
- Early reviews largely praise Stewart’s formally adventurous approach and Poots’s performance, with one prominent dissent criticizing the film’s execution.
- Shot on 16mm, the movie employs close-ups and fragmentary editing to evoke memory and interiority rather than a conventional biopic structure.
- The ensemble features Jim Belushi as Ken Kesey and a cameo by Kim Gordon, while Yuknavitch told Vogue she has not yet seen the film and had limited involvement in the adaptation.