Serena (Dir: Susanne Bier) (B. Cooper, J. Lawrence, T. Jones, R. Ifans)
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Serena (Dir: Susanne Bier) (B. Cooper, J. Lawrence, T. Jones, R. Ifans)
The film follows newlyweds George (Cooper) and Serena Pemberton (Lawrence) who travel from Boston to the mountains of North Carolina where they begin to build a timber empire in 1929. Serena soon shows herself to be the equal of any man: overseeing crews, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man's life in the wilderness. Together, this king and queen rule their dominion, killing or vanquishing all who stand in the way of their ambitions. But when Serena learns that she can never bear a child, she sets out to murder the woman who bore George a son before his marriage. And when she starts to suspect that George is protecting his illegitimate family, the Pembertons' intense, passionate marriage begins to unravel as the story moves toward its shocking reckoning.
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Re: Serena (Dir: Susanne Bier) (B. Cooper, J. Lawrence, T. Jones, R. Ifans)
I'd almost swear we had another thread on this. Didn't even remember making this one.
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Re: Serena (Dir: Susanne Bier) (B. Cooper, J. Lawrence, T. Jones, R. Ifans)
Yeah it's been released every else in the world it seems except here, I think they were going to capitalize on the cast but realized it's just an absolute shit movie.
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Wow, it only took three posts to bump from 2012 to 2014 to 2015. Three years in three posts--that's gotta be some kind of record.
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The BBC film show to which I listen reviewed it some time ago, I think it's been in the can (or rather on the hard drive) for a couple of years now. Even with two stars who are hot properties now, it still doesn't seem to be finding distribution.
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Re: Serena (Dir: Susanne Bier) (B. Cooper, J. Lawrence, T. Jones, R. Ifans)
Dreadfully dull and unfocused movie with very little redeeming value beyond a couple well acted scenes and a somber/haunting score. Take out the credits and its only 100 minutes long but boy did it feel a lot longer than that.
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Re: Serena (Dir: Susanne Bier) (B. Cooper, J. Lawrence, T. Jones, R. Ifans)
I am not surprised, Oscar winning director Susanne Bier is the female version of Steven Daldry. One of the most heavy handed clichéd directors out there.
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Re: Serena (Dir: Susanne Bier) (B. Cooper, J. Lawrence, T. Jones, R. Ifans)
Jennifer Lawrence as a Mexican singer? I think Jennifer Lopez did it better.
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