Trailer Watch: Jennifer Lawrence Returns Dwelling From Struggle in Lila Neugebauer’s “Causeway”

“If it will get darkish, you simply journey it,” Jennifer Lawrence is suggested in a brand new trailer for “Causeway.” The Oscar winner is eyeing her fifth nomination for the drama, which sees her taking part in Lynsey, a army engineer who returns dwelling to the New Orleans from Afghanistan with a a debilitating mind damage in addition to trauma to unpack.

The spot is sparse on plot particulars, however exhibits Lynsey connecting with a brand new pal (Brian Tyree Henry, “Atlanta”) and beginning a job cleansing swimming pools.

Described as “a quiet however devastating, and in the end uplifting, story about coming to phrases and transferring ahead” in its official synopsis, “Causeway” marks theater director Lila Neugebauer’s function debut. “It’s an excavation of how we cope and start to heal, one seemingly small — typically painful, typically revelatory — step at a time,” she advised us. “I’m endlessly fascinated by how the obstacles that intervene with our potential to make progress are sometimes inner — and a lot of the time, now we have to confront these inner blocks, obfuscations, and narratives earlier than we will meaningfully start to vary.”

Finest recognized for steering a Tony-nominated revival of “The Waverly Gallery,” Neugebauer’s TV directing credit embrace “Maid” and “The Intercourse Lives of School Ladies.”

Lawrence received an Oscar for “Silver Linings Playbook” and scored nods for “Pleasure,” “American Hustle,” and her breakout movie, “Winter’s Bone.” She was final seen in “Don’t Look Up.”

“Causeway” will premiere in choose theaters and globally on Apple TV+ on November 4. Ottessa Moshfegh, Elizabeth Sanders, and Luke Goebel penned the script. Lawrence is among the many pic’s producers.