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Savage Grace (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
94 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2007 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Tom Kalin

Written By:
Howard A. Rodman
Natalie Robins

Actors:
Julianne Moore ..... Barbara Baekeland
Stephen Dillane ..... Brooks Baekeland
Elena Anaya ..... Blanca
Simón Andreu ..... Jean Pierre Souvestre
Jim Arnold ..... Joost Van Den Heuvels
Xavier Capdet ..... Gate man
Barney Clark ..... Tony as a child
Hugh Dancy ..... Sam
Abel Folk ..... Carlos Durán
Mapi Galán ..... Simone Lippe
Martin Huber ..... Aschwin Lippe
Lina Lambert ..... Missy
Minnie Marx ..... Midge Van Den Heuvels
Peter Vives Newey ..... Mishka
Brendan Price ..... PC Roberts
Eddie Redmayne ..... Tony Baekeland
Anne Reid ..... Nini Daly
Belén Rueda ..... Pilar Durán
Unax Ugalde ..... Black Jake

Synopsis:

'Savage Grace', Tom Kalin's long-awaited second feature (after 'Swoon'), swoons through a number of lovely, storied places on its way to a sad and sordid end. Narrated by Tony Baekeland (played in young adulthood by Eddie Redmayne), it begins in the post-World War II Manhattan of late-night dinners at the Stork Club and moves on to Paris in the '50s and then to Spain (Cadaqus and Majorca, to be precise) in the late 1960s and London after that. Written by Howard A. Rodman, 'Savage Grace' follows the true, appalling story of Tony and his parents, played by Stephen Dillane and Julianne Moore. Brooks Baekeland, heir to a plastics fortune (his grandfather invented Bakelite), is frustrated by his own lack of ambition and less than kind to his wife, Barbara. For her part, Barbara is impulsive and also somewhat pretentious, striving to jam herself into social niches where she won't comfortably fit. Greeting a literary scholar who has come for lunch, she asks: 'Was Proust truly a homosexual? Qu'est-ce que tu penses? That line, like so many others in Mr. Rodman's script, is written and delivered with an arch, brittle self-consciousness that becomes oppressive over time. While it's likely that the diction and phrasing of the dialogue approximates the idioms of rich expatriates during the decades in question, the characters still seem vague, stilted and unreal.

Barbara Daly, the dashing heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune, married above her class to Brooks Baekeland. Beautiful, red-headed and charismatic, Barbara is still no match for her well-bred husband. The birth of the couple's only child, Tony, rocks the uneasy balance in this marriage of extremes. Tony is a failure in his father's eyes. As he matures and becomes increasingly close to his lonely mother, the seeds for a tragedy of spectacular decadence are sown. From 1946 to 1972, the Baekelands' pursuit of social distinction and the glittering 'good life" propels them across the globe.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 08 October, 2008.

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