No other female star has distanced herself as much, through her professional choices, from the image of the teenage actress who rises to fame with the most popular teen romance of her time as Kristen Stewart. In her directorial debut, an adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch's autobiographical novel of the same name, Stewart also avoids falling into the most worn-out model of independent cinema. Unexpectedly, she adopts aesthetic strategies more typical of the experimental realm, such as hyper-fragmentation, blurring, and non-linear structures, which allow her to break away from two commonplaces of cinematic mise-en-scène.