Shailene Woodley in her drama thriller movie White Bird in a Blizzard; will be hitting Cinemas this October 2014!
The film White Bird in a Blizzard is a French-American drama thriller about Kat Connors (Shailene Woodley), a teenage girl who is only 17 years old when she lost her mom Eve (Eva Green), a beautiful, enigmatic, and haunted woman, who left her and disappeared without any word. The story intertwines back and forth with flash-backs of Eve's past life and present day. In the flashbacks we see Eve, who was a wild girl, and her gradual changes to household mother after her marriage to Brock (Christopher Meloni), an ordinary man who leads a typical life.
While Kat explores her teenage life with her neighbor and schoolmate Phil, Eve struggles to deal with aging and reducing her youthful wildness: she tries to be sexy when Brock is away, and even lure Phil. After Eve leaves, Kat deals with her abandonment without much issue, even letting her own wild side out, she even seduced the detective on her mother's case. Returning home on a break from college, Kat found out that her father is in a relationship with one of his coworkers: again, this doesn't disturb her.
The detective who Kat has been with told her about the possibility that Brock might have killed Eve after he knew Eve was having an affair with another guy. Kat dismisses the idea, and continue to deny the events surrounding her mother's disappearance...
According to Indiewire's Nigel Smith interview, the 22 year-old actress in fact supports the film's emphasis on teenage sexuality.
"I think it's so refreshing to see a coming-of-age film that actually deals with sex and that has sexuality be a large theme in the film because it's such a large part of so many adolescents' lives right? It's there, we just don't really talk about and we really don't talk about it in cinema too often with young people and you look at French films or European films and it's not a big deal because sexuality is not something that's sort of taboo over there. It's more normal, it's more accepted, it's just a part of life and its part of all of our lives."
"The image of life being so perfect with the lawn [in the film] and yet being so completely broken inside and projecting an image to others that isn't actually the feeling that you exist within yourself I feel like is similar to sexuality in America in a lot of ways, you know, where it's something that exists and you pretend that it doesn't in everyday life. I thought it was really. Neat. And it was truthful. It wasn't exploitive or anything," she said.
But there was one element of sex she revealed was totally new for her:
"...I never had to do a sex scene looking into a camera before. That was a little bit interesting."
White Bird in a Blizzard premiered on Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2014, where it gets different feedbacks:
"MOODY, MELANCHOLIC, SPELLBINDING"
- PAPER MAGAZINE
"Sexy, hilarious, brutal, and haunting all at once"
- Indiewire
"Naughty, campy and wildly uneven."
- Variety's Peter Debruge
The movie is directed by Gregg Araki, based on Laura Kasischke's novel, starring Shailene Woodley, Eva Green, Christopher Meloni, Shiloh Fernandez, Gabourey Sidibe, Thomas Jane, Dale Dickey, Mark Indelicato, Sheryl Lee, and Angela Bassett.
Distributed by Magnolia Pictures, the movie is set to have a limited release on October 24, 2014.
