White Bird in a Blizzard

MA15+

2014

88 mins

Directed by Gregg Araki
58%
43%
Drama
Thriller

Set in the late ‘80s, the life of a teenage girl (Shailene Woodley, The Fault in Our Stars) gets complicated in... More

Set in the late ‘80s, the life of a teenage girl (Shailene Woodley, The Fault in Our Stars) gets complicated in this coming-of-age mystery after the seemingly random disappearance of her mother (Eva Green, 300: Rise of an Empire).

Kat (Woodley) is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, Eve (Green), an enigmatic and haunted woman, disappears. Having lived in a stifled, emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blame her doormat of a father (Christopher Meloni) for the loss. But as time passes, Kat begins to come to grips with how deeply Eve's disappearance has affected her. Returning home on a break from college, she finds herself confronted with the truth about her mother's departure, and her own denial about the events surrounding it.

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White Bird in a Blizzard | Ratings & Reviews

58_%88 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
43_%6,386 reviews
Audience score rating

"It's easy to be distracted by (and possibly even to dismiss) "White Bird" as a tarted-up Nancy Drew mystery without recognizing it's a complex take on how teens must break away from their parents to become their own person."

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Variety

"Misses the energy and vitality of Gregg Araki's best work, but there's more going on here than immediately meets the eye."

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Total Film

"Araki has never made a boring movie, even if his brand of too-fast-too-soon sexual awakening has become something of a crutch."

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Time Out

"Its elements don't really cohere."

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The New York Times

"This dreamy/nightmarish weirdie finds Araki reining in his anarchic excesses with rewarding results, as his satirical sensuality reaps the benefits of a heavily orchestrated deadpan formality."

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The Guardian

"Araki's campy-clunky, crass-for-crass'-sake adaptation of the 1999 novel by Laura Kasischke needed a full rethink."

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Los Angeles Times

"A more restrained effort from Araki than the headrush of Kaboom, there's plenty of fun to be had in Eva Green's Joan Crawford-esque turn as the vanished lady."

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