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A new movie starring Jennifer Lawrence and her American Hustle co-star Bradley Cooper? Featuring tension, violence, sweeping mountain locations, and jazz-age costumes that are duly removed for sizzling scenes of a sexual nature? Shouldn’t this new J-Law and B-Coop event be the biggest thing around as we enter awards season?
Well … not exactly. This interesting, flawed film was completed more than two years ago, then shelved while its distributors wondered what to do with it. Despite offering what is arguably Jennifer Lawrence’s most ambitious and grownup performance so far, Serena has been left to sidle into UK cinemas right after a notably un-hoopla’d premiere at the London film festival. The American release is still a while off.
Its director is Susanne Bier, the Danish film-maker responsible for the challenging drama In a Better World, and who also gained a commercial track record with English-language movies such as Love is All You Need and Things We Lost in the Fire. Bier is an interesting person to take charge of this big emotional spectacle, set in depression-era America in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. It is clotted with its own atmosphere of tragic gloom and erotic doom. - Initial release: October 24, 2014 (United Kingdom)
- Director: Susanne Bier
- Running time: 1h 49m
- Screenplay: Christopher Kyle
- Genre: Drama film
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