White Bird In A Blizzard (2014) 8/10

Starring : Shailene Woodley, Eva Green, Christopher Meloni, Shiloh Fernandez
Director : Gregg Araki
Running Time : 92 mins

Kat Connors (Woodley) is a teenager who is faced with having to deal with the disappearance of her mother, the seemingly clinically depressed Eve (Green). Her father Brock (Meloni) seems unconcerned that his wife may have run off with another man, and Kat quickly gets over the disappearance, assuming her mother has simply abandoned her. But as the years go by, new details come to light that her mother may have been murdered and that cast suspicion on her father.

This movie is truly a slow burner, but it pays off at the end. All the melodrama and double bluffs come together in this well paced and intriguing drama that really gives Shailene Woodley a chance to shine. She was fantastic in The Spectacular Now, which seemed to have launched her career, and it’s good to see that starring in the Divergent series hasn’t watered down her opportunites. Fernandez is a little weak in this – almost a non-entity - but there are some interesting performances from both Green and Meloni.

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