We have been waiting forever for Susanne Bier‘s Serena, a film that reunites Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, but also one that has been sitting on the shelves for one hell of a long time only to suddenly pop up on the UK release calendar without a domestic release in sight. Now we have a trailer and poster for the movie that will be hitting UK theaters on October 24.
Based on Ron Rash‘s novel of the same name, 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.
I have a feeling I’ll never end up seeing this film, but reactions from those that do end up seeing it will be interesting. I love Bier’s work, but she can be hit and miss. The lengthy delay and lack of a domestic distributor suggests this is a miss, but we’ll see.
Watch the Serena trailer and check out the poster below.
