Serena
In Depression-era North Carolina, the barren wife (Jennifer Lawrence) of an ambitious timber baron (Bradley Cooper) learns that she cannot ever bear children after she suffers a miscarriage with their first child. Then she sets out to murder the woman who bore her husband an illegitimate son.
September1980, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK
11 October 1966, Brno, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
1 May 1985, Prague, Czech Republic
28 December 1949, Dundee, Scotland, UK
12 April 1965, Copenhagen, Denmark
19 February 1987, Australia
24 September 1959, Duchcov, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
8 May 1979, Nové Mesto na Morave, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
21 November 1969
18 April 1961, Brno, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
7 September 1966, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
17 May 1956, Karviná, Czechoslovakia
26 June 1985, Bucharest, Romania
31 October 1974, Sweden
3 March 1961, Vejle, Denmark
15 August 1990, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
20 January 1968, Ljubljana, Slovenia
January 01, 2016
Well, Serena isn't great, but it's better than the lousy reputation that precedes it.
March 27, 2015
A flat-out disaster, the kind of film that its cast and crew hope gets buried as quickly as possible as they race to move on to other projects.
January 24, 2016
When Rhys Ifans doing a Carolina accent is the best thing in your movie, well... Maybe it's time to call the whole thing off.
March 26, 2015
The actors don't just look uncomfortable in their period duds, they also look uneasy in their own skins, which is a feat for two such natural, physically confident screen performers.
March 27, 2015
In other words, a lot of people realized they had an epic clunker on their hands.
November 12, 2015
Serena is simply a one-off botch.
March 27, 2015
Given these unpromising circumstances, I was expecting something truly awful, and perhaps that might have been more fun to watch than this lugubrious period piece. The production values and the costumes are the true stars.
April 11, 2016
The narrative has the choppy quality of a badly bowdlerised book, and the result is not bad so much as boring - and best thought of as a tree, fallen in the forest, that nobody heard.
November 10, 2015
It's an odd misfire from two actors at the peak of their game, but a misfire nonetheless.
