Twenty years later we meet the next victim of the femme fatal, George Pemberton. In Susanne Bier’s movie Serena, the time period takes us back to the depression era. In North Carolina George Pemberton owns a timber business in the mountains. He is business partners with a man named Buchanan, and regularly hunts a panther with a stern man named Galloway. Not even ten minutes into the film George comes across the beautiful Serena Shaw, who came from a broken past. At the age of twelve there was a fire in her house, and her whole family ended up dying. After chasing after Serena on horseback, he tells her he thinks that they should get married, and a montage of their love affair begins. George brings Serena back to North Carolina, and there is
