White Bird in a Blizzard

White Bird in a Blizzard is a 2014 film about a teenage girl whose mother has been missing.

Directed and written by Gregg Araki. Based on the novel by Laura Kasischke.

Kat Connors

Because I never saw my mother again, she remains in absence to me. An empty space. An invisible, half remembered ghost. So even now I catch myself thinking that I'm gonna run into her some day. Like I'll be at a stop light, and look over at the car next to me and there she'll be, scowling at me with disapproval. Or I'll spot her across some crowded street, or train station, and we'll run toward each other like one of those cheesy TV movies. She'll hug me like a long, lost lover, then take my face in her long, graceful hands, look me in the eyes and say... "I'm here, Kat. I'm here."
I was seventeen when my mother disappeared. Just as I was becoming nothing but my body - flesh and blood and raging hormones - she stepped out of hers and left it behind.
Dr. Thaler reminds me of an actress playing the therapist. And when we have a session, I feel like an actress playing myself.
I miss fucking you.

It was so much fun. Everyone was freaked out because I’m nude, but in real life, when I have sex, I’m naked. I don’t have a bra on, and I don’t usually have panties on. So let’s make a real movie! Let’s bring truth to the scene! I didn’t want to be exploited, but this girl—like most girls when they first have sex—doesn’t know what she’s doing. I wanted their first kiss to be sloppy, teenagerish making out. When you’re younger, you think you know what to do, but you really don’t.
- Shailene Woodley in Shailene Woodley and Brie Larson Are Out to Conquer Hollywood—and Fix It in Vulture (2014 Jun 1)