Premiering at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year was White Girl, the debut feature from writer-director Elizabeth Wood. Led by Morgan Saylor (Homeland), the drama depicts the downward spiral of a girl who recently moved to New York City, getting caught in a torrid mix of love and drugs. The first trailer has now arrived ahead of a fall release and it looks to be a vividly captured drama, and perhaps would make a strong double feature with last year’s Heaven Knows What.
We said in our Sundance review, “White Girl is a more than simple voyeurism, watching a pretty junky’s downfall as she does things the patriarchy would loudly object to. The lessons along the way are not quite learned as Leah adapts to street life using her sexuality and drug stash to get herself in and out of trouble. White Girl presents a bleak picture even if it offers some liveliness along the way; it’s not all doom and gloom, rather there’s a real love story at its core. Leah proves to be a ride-or-die girl, not a white girl going through a phase, as alarming as it appears to be — perhaps it’s her white guilt talking.”
Check out the trailer and poster below for the film also starring Brian Marc, Justin Bartha, Adrian Martinez, India Salvor Menuez, Anthony Ramos, Ralph Rodriguez, Annabelle Dexter Jones and Chris Noth.
White Girl will arrive this September.