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Savage Grace
- Director: Tom Kalin
- Writer: Howard A. Rodman; Natalie Robins
- Producer: Philippe Aigle; Alberto Aranda
CGiii Comment
An unpalatable, disturbing and, ultimately, pointless tale.
A true-ish story of a dysfunctional, wealthy family...of inherited patents. Money can't buy happiness.
There is no faulting the acting, or even the direction for that matter – Kalin knows what he’s doing.
It’s the writing that is the main problem – the sheer arrogance of Rodman to assume that anyone would be interested in these horrid, incestuous people is absolutely perplexing.
We all know the super-rich are fucked up – we will never feel sorry for them – a redundant film of poor rich people.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
The true story of the beautiful and charismatic but mentally unstable Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Their only child is a failure in his father's eyes, and as he matures and becomes increasingly close to his alienated mother, the seeds for tragedy are sown.
Cast & Characters
Julianne Moore as Barbara Baekeland;
Stephen Dillane as Brooks Baekeland;
Anne Reid as Nini Daly;
Martin Huber as Aschwin Lippe;
Minnie Marx as Midge Van Den Heuvels;
Jim Arnold as Joost Van Den Heuvels;
Mapi Galan as Simone Lippe;
Barney Clark as Tony at 12;
Abel Folk as Carlos Duran;
Belen Rueda as Pilar Duran;
Simon Andreu as Jean Pierre Souvestre;
Eddie Redmayne as Antony Baekeland;
Elena Anaya as Blanca