Serena (film)

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Movie
German title Serena
Original title Serena
Country of production United States ,
France
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Susanne beer
script Christopher Kyle
production Susanne Bier,
Ben Cosgrove ,
Mark Cuban ,
Steve Schwartz ,
Paula Mae Schwartz ,
Todd Wagner ,
Nick Wechsler
music Johan Söderqvist
camera Morten Søborg
cut Pernille Bech Christensen ,
Matthew Newman ,
Simon Webb
occupation

Serena is an American - French drama from 2014 directed by Susanne Bier . In the film stars Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper a newlywed couple, a timber company in North Carolina leads the 1930s. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Ron Rash .

The film premiered on October 13, 2014 at the London Film Festival . In Germany, the film opened on December 18, 2014, while in the USA it was only released on March 27, 2015.

action

The newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton moved from Boston to North Carolina in 1929 to start the lucrative timber business. In doing so, Serena proves to be equal to her husband: She controls the workers, manages finances, develops business strategies and saves the life of the rough tracker Galloway while doing the woodwork. Business is flourishing, but the Pembertons are being targeted by the judiciary on suspicion of falsified balance sheets and bribery, and the government is also planning to build a national park on Pemberton's property . To avert the danger, George is also ready to kill his friend Buchanan, who threatens to have him blown.

When Serena loses her unborn child and learns that she is sterile, her hatred of her husband's former lover and his child makes her lose touch with reality and morality, because as a child she lost her entire family in a fire. Out of jealousy, she wants to break the connection between George and his illegitimate family. She doesn't stop at the killing either and after killing the boy's carer, she instructs her new henchman Galloway to kill the boy and his mother herself. In order to find out where his son is hidden by the police so that he can protect him from Galloway, George turns himself in to the sheriff and confesses his fakes and bribes. Just in time he saved his son and his mother from death. George is then killed by a puma while hunting and Serena ultimately chooses to commit suicide by setting her hut on fire.

reception

criticism

The film received largely negative reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes , only 31% of reviews are positive, out of a total of 36 reviews. The average rating is 4.5 / 10. At Metacritic , the film received a rating of 40/100 with a total of 7 reviews.

The Hollywood Reporter said the film had only one key flaw: it was difficult "to believe a single word, let alone the ruthlessly selfish and short-sighted characters." Also criticized were Christopher Kyle's script, a “sequence of jarring clichés and wooden attempts in the subtext”, as well as Johan Soderqvist's film music, which was “saturated” and “imploring orchestral”. The film-dienst described the film as "an old-fashioned melodrama that does not find a clear line in terms of staging and is neither a historical film about the era of depression nor a jealous drama that is convincing."

The Cinema called the film, however, a "first class played and disturbing narrated drama". The film skilfully plays “with the self-destructive emotions of human nature” such as “fear of loss, grief, greed and unbridled obsession”. The film website kino.de criticized that “some sentimentalities just miss the kitsch”, but the film would go beyond a “love story” and create a “web of erotic manipulation and dark machinations” against the background of the 1929 economic crisis.

Birgit Roschy from epd Film judged that the epic demonstrates “a lot of wood in front of the hut”: “two stars who sparked sparks in Silver Linings, widescreen panoramas, rich colors, opulent costumes and a siren in the glamorous retro Hollywood style, theirs platinum blonde waves must be exactly laid even under the most adverse circumstances ”. Nevertheless, despite the weighty themes, the story “quickly loses its traction. The carefully decorated woodcutter's backdrop “seems strangely set up and narrow”, you get “neither a feeling for the bloody details of the work nor for the backwoods proletariat, in which Serena strikes like a comet”.

Gross profit

With a budget between 25 and 30 million US dollars, he made only 3.9 million US dollars worldwide.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Serena . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2014 (PDF; test number: 148 400 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Serena . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Zack Smith: Ron Rash discusses the craft of the short story and the complexity of Appalachian speech . In: Indy Week , February 20, 2013. Retrieved February 25, 2013. 
  4. ↑ Release Info. Serena (I) (2014). Internet Movie Database , accessed December 28, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Serena (2015). Rotten Tomatoes , accessed December 28, 2014 .
  6. ^ Serena Reviews. Metacritic , accessed December 31, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Stephen Dalton: 'Serena': London Review. The Hollywood Reporter , October 13, 2013, accessed on December 28, 2014 (English): "Serena only has one key flaw: it is difficult to believe a single word of it, still less to care about these relentlessly cand short-sighted characters . […] More blame lies with Christopher Kyle's script, a string of jarring cliches and clunky attempts at subtext […]. Johan Soderqvist's cloying, imploring orchestral score is also at fault [...] "
  8. ↑ Serena (2014). film service , accessed December 28, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Serena. Cinema , accessed December 28, 2014 .
  10. ↑ mk: Serena. Busch Entertainment Media (kino.de), accessed on December 28, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Birgit Roschy: Critique of Serena. epd Film (epd-film.de), accessed on April 27, 2015 .