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In this article the authors give an example of an integral functional \(F\) defined on \(W^{1,1}_0((0,1),\mathbb{R}^2)\) with integrand \(f\) strictly convex and such that the functional \(F\) is not \(L^1\)-lower semicontinuous. This example gives a counterexample to a lower semicontinuity result of Serrin, true in the scalar case. The counterexample is constructed by taking \[ f(\theta,\overline \theta)=f(\xi,\eta,\overline \xi,\overline \eta)= \frac{\overline \eta^2+e^{\overline \eta}}{e^{|\theta|^4}} \] which is a smooth function strictly convex with respect to the \(\overline \theta\) variable.