White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)

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	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Gregg Araki (Kaboom!)
	Actors: Shailene Woodley, Eva Green (Casino Royale, 300: Rise of an Empire), Christopher Meloni
	Country: F, USA
	Genre: Drama, Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 18.09.2014, CINEMA theater, MFFF2014
Synopsis: Kat (Woodley) was 17 when her mother (Green) disappeared. How was her teenager life before and after that event?
Review:  I enjoyed a lot Gregg Araki's previous movie Kaboom! for its energy and originality. In White Bird in a Blizzard, the main characters are younger that in Kaboom! (end of high school vs. college), but Araki shows them with his same talent, i.e. living their daily lives with their specific problems: relationship with friends, parents, school, boyfriends, sex... I like this realistic style. While the movie progresses, we learn more about the disappeared mother in unexpected and quite funny situations also involving the father, both parents very well played I found. But the heart of the story remains Kat and how she lives her life, and the way it is told makes it easy for feel for her. On the downside, the movie is a bit slow and predictable (except for the final twist), so that I didn't like it as much as Kaboom! which went madly is all directions.
Rating: 6 /10