White Bird in a Blizzard Reviews

I have a somewhat strange relationship with Gregg Araki’s work. Indeed, ever since I saw ‘The Doom Generation’ about 20 years ago, I have been really eager to check his other movies but, somehow, I watch one of his movies only once every 5 years. Anyway, since this movie was also starring Shailene Woodley and Eva Green, I was quite eager to check it out. Eventually, I think it must be the most accessible movie directed by Araki so far (except for a lot of topless nudity from Woodley, nothing really shocking or controversial happened during the whole thing) but, as a result, it didn’t really make a huge impression either, I’m afraid. Above all, the more I think about it, the more I believe that the ending didn’t really add up and I think it would have been more interesting if it would have been more ambiguous. Anyway, it doesn’t mean that it was a bad movie though, in the contrary. Indeed, I really liked the mood and how they managed to show this tale completely through the eyes of the main character and, as a result, it really seemed for a while that her mother vanished when, in fact, it was actually pretty obvious that she was killed probably by her husband. Furthermore,  Shailene Woodley, after ‘The Descendants’, ‘The Spectacular Now’ and ‘The Fault in Our Stars’, once again really impressed me, it’s too bad that the ‘Divergent’ franchise turned out to be such a failure and I hope her promising career won’t be too damaged. Anyway, to conclude, even though it was nothing really ground-breaking, I thought it was still a solid drama and I think it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.