Directed by: Susanne Bier; Starring: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Rhys Ifans; Genre: Drama; Age: 12+; Time: 109min
Newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton 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. Together, this king and queen rule their dominion. 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.
