White Bird in a Blizzard

2014 "I was 17 when my mother disappeared…"
6.4| 1h31m| R| en| More Info
Released: 24 October 2014 Released
Producted By: Why Not Productions
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
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Official Website: http://www.magpictures.com/whitebirdinablizzard/
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In 1988, a teenage girl's life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears.

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Drama, Thriller

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Director

Gregg Araki

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Why Not Productions

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Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable
Nonureva Really Surprised!
MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant
Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
jackcwelch23 This film is so nonchalant in its storytelling you feel as if the whole thing has been told to you by someone who's been awake for 24 hours and is just about to pass out. Shailene Woodley gives a strong performance but plays an unlikeable self indulgent bore. I couldn't care less about her story and her discoveries because there was nothing to root for. No real sense that the character is a worthwhile one to watch change. The signature seduction scene is cringeworthy and very unsettling, like seeing someone rip a band aid off as slowly as possible. Although for anyone interested, she does indeed have a lovely pair of breasts. At a brisk 91 minutes, we have little time to spend with these characters and the time we do spend with them we neither enjoy or get much in the way of insight or thought. Eva Green was potentially interesting but unexplored, nothing but a mystery. Do we care about this weird, cruel mid life crisis having woman? i did not. She Probably shouldn't have gotten married seeing as it conflicted with her wild child personality. Chirstopher Meloni sits around a lot wearing a moustache but again is one dimensional. Shiloh Fernandez is pretty good at playing a complete dope but again has little else to latch onto. Overall it's just a tepid, boring drama. The colourful cinematography and cool soundtrack is great but there's just so little substance it equals naught.
Floated2 White Snow in a Blizzard is a book adaptation film, in which is a lower level not as popular book release. The film is quite a serious drama with some set tones of comic relief and bit of a thriller. The film is quite interesting and bizarre and plays out of a different type of film in comparison to typical Hollywood films. The problems with this film is that it isn't as suspenseful or thrilling as it could have been, and the characters (specficially Shailene Woodley's character) is quite unlikable in this lead, but that was most of the point.Trying to shed off and try a different role compared to her other 'good girl' roles, Shailene Woodley does do a successful job as we see her disrobe in several scenes and use more cursing. Another thing with this film is they added far too many F-bombs, in which we start to notice. We understand teenagers do curse heavy but with this film it became a bit annoying and obvious, perhaps not great writing.Also the main point of the film if the disappearance with the mother, but most of the characters don't tend to care or at least show, or do a better job at trying to find her. Especially Woodley and the father (Christopger Meloni) where as if they don't care about the mother's disappearance why should we. This film has been compared to Gone Girl, but in comparison, Gone Girl had much better writing, was more suspenseful, worked better as a thriller, and we cared what happens in the ending. White Snow in a Blizzard's ending felt a little rushed, as the film is quite slow in pace, then within the last 5 minutes or so, everything is wrapped up, and there a few plot twists that come alone surprisingly. Though they work, perhaps about 10 minutes more they could have added to layer out the rushed ending. This film isn't for everyone and it is a relatively smaller film, but those who like Shailene Woodley and her disrobing may enjoy it.
daxsir First i will watch anything with Eva Green in. I enjoy this type of film a mystery movie. This one kept me interested to the surprise ending. Great goth late 80's sound track. I believe it was based on a book in which the ending has been changed. The acting is good and you really end up caring where the mother has gone. I can't really understand the poor reviews. Unless you were unhappy with the change to the ending. The actress who plays the daughter Kat is very attractive. It keeps the mystery going to the end through good acting and the story of Kat since her mothers disappearance is easy watching. My advice is watch it with an open mind you may enjoy it.
Seth_Rogue_One This movie is a hard movie to rate I feel, although many scenes are well orchestrated together as a movie it just doesn't make you feel anything, and the ending is clearly meant to be moving and shocking but it's really not.Acting is... Okay, it's not bad but again the cast fail to make you sympathise with any of them, visually it's really good looking so that's always a plus but a lot of times the movie seems more focused on showcasing Shailene Woodley's breasts than anything else.Now there's nothing wrong with them at all, in fact they are pretty neat however I'd prefer her keeping her clothes on if that meant that the director could focus on telling the story in it's best way as possible.Listed as a drama/mystery/thriller but the drama that is feel too flat and superficial to ever hit an emotional core, even though it tries in the end but by then it's too late and based on how the characters interacted with each other previous having that boastful dramatic ending simply does not make much sense.As far as the mystery well... sure there is some mystery I suppose but there are only so many ways it can end so it doesn't become very successful in that department either, plus most times it focuses on the teenager's sex-life more than anything else.As far as the thriller goes, well even less there going on honestly, there's not many scenes of suspense here to be found.No tbh it felt like this movie would work a lot better if they did it as a dark comedy and went a little more crazy with it, I think the movie could have succeeded at being that with just minor tweaks to the script.I was debating whether to give it a 5 or a 4 but after writing down my thoughts here it has to be a 4 after all, there is talent involved but the movie just kinda feels a bit pointless.