the trouble is that there's nothing here that's really very enlightening. Whilst the film will surely help to promote Nourry as an artist, one cannot help but feel that, from an artistic perspective, she took on this challenge too soon
for better and for worse, the film is both personal memoir & promo reel, and the emotions tend to be undercut by the self-marketing; This is more about reflecting on sickness, treating it ruminatively so as to extrapolate some kind of motivating purpose
"Serendipity" can be an extremely intimate documentary, but there are other times when it is curiously remote in elucidating Nourry's artistic intentions. This is not a criticism
by Jennie Kermode [Eye for Film (UK) ]
