Cert 15
91 mins
BBFC advice: Strong language, sex, sex references
Oo'er, missus... here's Shailene Woodley, one of Hollywood's brightest stars on what can be described as a voyage of sexual discovery.
Thankfully, Miss Woodley is a little bit older than I had thought - despite her characters in White Bird In A Blizzard and films such as Divergent being a lot younger than her 23 real life years,
Here. she is the 17-year-old daughter of a frustrated stay-at-home mum (Eva Green) who mysteriously disappears.
Gregg Araki's film is made up of flashbacks to the relationship between mother and daughter as well as examining the fall-out of her disappearance.
In a nutshell, the teenager fills the void by throwing herself at her next-door neighbour and then the sheriff who is investigating her mum's case.
Strangely, the mother's behaviour was so ghastly before she vanished, that neither her daughter nor husband (Christopher Meloni) seem to care that she has gone.
But as time goes on the former does begin to question what happened to her.
White Bird In A Blizzard is edgy and intriguing, delivering curve balls right up to its finale.
But it is also patchy. While it is true that Woodley and Green give admirable performances, the same ground is trodden repeatedly.
And because its style is languid rather than dramatic the big hit scenes are rather diluted.
Shailene Woodley: "It is a rite of passage to be in a Gregg Araki film because there is no other director who makes films the way he does - so different and yet so clearly have his mark.
Reason to watch: Another fine performance from one of Hollywood's brightest young stars, Shailene Woodley.
Reason to avoid: Quite long periods where there is either repetition or nothing much happening.
Laughs: none
Jumps: none
Vomit: none
Nudity: yes
Overall rating: 6.5/10