Film Preview: White Bird (2024)

Film Poster

Page Revisions:

(July 3, 2022) Original
(April 23, 2023) New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#1) — New Release Date (Changed from 10.14.2022)
(May 26, 2024) New Trailer (#3) — New Release Date (changed from 8.25.2023)
(September 29, 2024) New Release Date (changed from 10.4.2024)

Release Date:

October 4, 2024

Synopsis:

From IMDb: “A young Jewish girl hidden away by a boy and his family in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.”

Poster Rating: B

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Review: (#1, B) There’s a beauty to the design that almost overcomes its simplicity. The particle effects simply don’t strike the viewer as anything but oppressive. The inference of memory is the most elegant element in the design.

Trailer Rating: B- / B- / B

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Review: (#1, B-) Any movie with Helen Mirren is instantly improved. The film itself looks less wholesome than Wonder did, shifting into hope-adjacent Holocaust survival narrative. It seems a bit heavy for a series that’s more popularity-driven. Still, it’s relatively effective at setting up the narrative and conveying that to an unfamiliar viewer, which might bolster their interest.

(#2, B-) Remembering back to the first trailer that was released, the contents were vaguely similar, though the intensity of the underlying narrative feels like it comes through more with this latest trailer, but not enough to make it a more compelling concept than the first trailer originally felt.

(#3, B) The trailer information hasn’t changed much from its prior incarnations but it’s been almost two years since the first trailer released, so viewers will be forgiven for not remembering either of the two prior efforts. This is a more concise trailer that feels like it sets the tone without going into depth and that might be just what this series needed.