After coming back from a filmmaking break with final 12 months’s Do not Look Up, Jennifer Lawrence has dived right into a extra straightforwardly dramatic movie with A24 and Apple TV+’s Causeway. Take a look at the primary trailer…

With Lila Neugebauer within the director’s chair, working from a script by Ottessa Moshfegh, Luke Goebel and Elizabeth Sanders, Causeway finds Lawrence as Lynsey, a army engineer who has returned to the States from Afghanistan with a debilitating mind damage after an IED explosion.

It is a painful and sluggish restoration as she relearns to stroll and re-trains her reminiscence, aided by a chatty however tender caretaker (Jayne Houdyshell). However when she returns house to New Orleans she has to face recollections much more aching and formative than these she had in service: a reckoning along with her childhood.

Staying along with her mom (Linda Emond), with whom she shares a tense relationship, all Lynsey desires to do is return to her work as an engineer. Her physician (Stephen McKinley Henderson) is cautious, and so within the meantime, she will get a job cleansing swimming pools. When her truck breaks down she meets James Aucoin (Brian Tyree Henry), who works on the auto restore store and gives her a journey house. Slowly they begin to depend on one another for firm and solace. James, it seems, can be suppressing his personal previous trauma…

Causeway is ready for launch in choose US cinemas (no phrase but on any UK plans) and can premiere the identical day on Apple TV+.

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