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White Bird in a Blizzard

2014

Gregg Araki

Shailene Woodley, Eva Green, Christopher Meloni, Shiloh Fernandez ...

6.0

1,065

Drama. Mystery Late 1980s. Kat Connors (Shailene Woodley) is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, Eve (Eva Green), a beautiful, enigmatic, and haunted woman, disappears—just as Kat is discovering and relishing her newfound sexuality. Having lived for so long in a stifled, emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother’s absence and certainly doesn’t blame her doormat of a father, Brock (Christopher Meloni), for the loss. ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Naughty, campy and wildly uneven — a film by Gregg Araki, in other words"	NEU
United States	John Anderson The Wall Street Journal	"An alibi for Mr. Araki to flex his considerable muscle as a visual artist, using a palette that ranges from the blissful to the grotesque"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A tacky-looking, dramatically flat send-up of sexual frustration and psychological warps that would have felt more at home set in the 1950s than in the late 1980s"	NEG
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"White Bird in a Blizzard is blank, pale and flat when it needs to be probing and suspenseful (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"Shailene Woodley’s sensitive performance is wasted as director Gregg Araki piles on heavy-handed metaphors, tortured plotting and wince-inducing dialogue"	NEG

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