Critic Emma Jones opinions this week’s main releases, together with Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut, “The Chronology of Water”, and the Japanese drama “A Pale View of Hills”. Director Myriam El Hajj affords a compelling portrait of a society in turmoil in her newest documentary, “Diaries from Lebanon”, following Georges, Joumana, and Perla Joe. The movie exposes Lebanon’s simmering tensions amid financial, political, and humanitarian crises. El Hajj shares the challenges of filmmaking in Lebanon in recent times and the way her topics impressed the power and optimism to finish the challenge.
Kristen Stewart weaves compelling, watery story in directorial debut
