Sunday 24 July 2016

Too familiar

White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)

Directed by Gregg Araki this film based on the novel of the same name stars Shailene Woodley, Eva Green and Christopher Meloni. In 1988 a seventeen year old girl comes home from school one day to find her father alone and her mother having disappeared.

Taking many familiar genre elements there is not a lot that is original in this film and I am not convinced it even covers it's subject matter that well. Even the final twist feels like a token effort that does not really fit the rest of the film. As always Shailene Woodley continues to increase her rising stock as one of the best young actresses but that is about all I took from this film.


2/5

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