Last fall, Shailene starred in the coming - of -
age drama White Bird in a Blizzard, directed by Gregg Araki.
Not exact matches
An indulgent ensemble exercise about the realisations that come with encroaching
age, Little
White Lies is — like its collection of protagonists — too caught up in its own
dramas to see the bigger picture.
The film is handsomely mounted and Lewin uses an interesting cinematic device to great effect: he cuts to full color when the new portrait is first unveiled and when the
aged, diseased image of Dorian is revealed after his descent into depravity, which provides a visual shock to the black and
white drama and enhances to horror of the grotesque mutation of the painting.
Other high - profile titles screening at the festival, which opens Friday, include «Ginger and Rosa,» filmmaker Sally Potter's coming - of -
age drama with Elle Fanning; «Midnight's Children,» director Deepa Mehta's adaptation of the novel by Salman Rushdie, who wrote the screenplay; and «Frances Ha,» a black - and -
white look at a young dancer directed by «The Squid...
(In Mandarin and Cantonese with subtitles) Twelve (Unrated) Coming - of -
age drama about a grieving 17 year - old (Chace Crawford) who drops out of school to sell drugs on Manhattan's Upper East Side after his mother dies of breast cancer only to have his best friend (Philip Ettinger) end up accused of the brutal murder of his cousin (Jeremy Allen
White).