Redmayne's portrayal of Tony, the two make for a disturbingly alluring screen pair. Moore's approach to the beautiful and disturbed Barbara is acute, captivating, and shattering. The gimlet-eyed view of this morose tale can be hard to swallow at times, but Ms. Moore permeates every scene, action, and aspect of "Savage Grace," a testament to the strange power that the real Barbara held over her family. While the depictions of Barbara Baekeland's twisted marriage and relationship with her son reek of Oscar bait, Ms. But despite, or perhaps on account of, the indignities of her character, Ms. As it stands, scenes degrading the film's star (including one particularly scarring sex scene) border on the abusive. Were it not based in fact, the film could be derided as sensationalist pulp. Tony committed suicide on Rikers Island in 1981 after he had stabbed his grandmother following a stint at a psychiatric hospital. When that didn't work, she tried to "cure" him herself. But the Baekeland story goes much further, delving into incest and matricide.Īntony's burgeoning homosexuality frightened the socially obsessed Barbara into hiring willing girls to take her son to bed. From a dramatic standpoint, the story is replete with the crises that plague the rich and entertain the rest of us - namely, betrayal, intrigue, and scandal.
Kalin has filled his film with beautiful human specimens, from Hugh Dancy to Elena Anaya and Unax Ugalde. By the time Tony relays one of his grandfather's favorite dictums about money - that it "allows us to not live with the consequences of our mistakes" - it's just a matter of time before someone makes a mistake that money can't fix.Įarly on, of course, basking in the products of the Baekeland empire looks pretty good, and Mr. But like many aspects of this film, Leo's worldview, based mostly on a veneration for wealth, is not as unassailable as it seems. The inventor of Bakelite (the first plastic made from synthetic components) is revered by his grandson Brooks, and young Tony comes of age in the shadow of these two formidable men. Kalin - whose last feature film, 1992's "Swoon," revisited the infamous Leopold and Loeb murder - makes it clear that all is not right in the world that Leo Baekeland built. But this marriage between the Bakelite heir and his beautiful, formerly working-class wife led to more than just a messy divorce.įrom the onset, Mr. Jetting between Paris, Majorca, and New York, Barbara and her husband, Brooks (Stephen Dillane), seemed to have the world at their fingertips. Given the special manufacturing process, fabric or leather upholstery is not removable.Based on the true story of one of the most sensational murder cases in American history, "Savage Grace" dissects life in the Baekeland family in the years leading up to Antony Baekeland's (Eddie Redmayne) cold-blooded murder of his mother, Barbara (Julianne Moore), in 1972. Option to cover the back of the headboard in leather with the back panel in coordinated velvet. Also available, a sommier base covered in leather, fabric or velvet from the range. The bottom of the container is in laminated wood with a silky surface finish.
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