Surely the starting point for the film is the script, and Kyle's is devoid of suspense, tension and drama. With so much wrong in the film it is hard to differentiate whose shoulders must bear the brunt of the blame. I'm disappointed and all I did was read the summary of the novel after watching the film, and all I can say is "woof, Cliffnotes, eat your heart out." Serena is a tragedy of editing, direction, screen writing, and acting all with a pretty paint job to delude viewers into thinking the drama is adequate. Anyone who has read the novel Serena by Ron Rash should be deeply disappointed by the film adaptation by screenwriter Christopher Kyle and director Susanne Bier. Their saga and dramatics for success is the basis of the narrative within this film. Together, the newly married couple return to North Carolina and pursue the venture together, Serena being the ever proficient business partner. While in the Northeast he meets a captivating woman named Serena (Jennifer Lawrence) and marries her. George Pemberton (Bradley Cooper) is trying to build a timber empire in North Carolina in 1929. Serena is a bunch of melodramatic nonsense masked as a worthy Hollywood feature film – when in reality it is just a bigger budgeted soap opera set in a historical time period. If a film has Academy Award nominated actors, is based off a New York Times bestseller, it can still be a crap movie.
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