But this is a fierce and interesting refinement of the role. Julianne Moore plays Barbara - and after this film, and movies like The Hours and Far from Heaven, she is in danger of being typecast as the high-camp suffering mother. Mother, father and son created a dysfunctional love triangle which ended in violence and bloodshed. She could find a smothering intimacy only with her gay son, Tony Daly.
Her drinking, her propensity for making a scene in public, and her weakness for pseudo-bohemian adulterous flings evidently made the marriage a living hell. Barbara Daly was the would-be actress, artist and social alpinist who in postwar New York married wealthy Brooks Baekeland, a travel writer and heir to the Bakelite fortune. It is a sensational, lurid story: erotic and repulsive by overlapping turn. Green then took legal action against the film makers, which was still unresolved at the time of his death.A sick-room torpor hangs heavily about this masterfully controlled, elegantly composed movie by Tom Kalin, his first full-length feature since the much-admired Swoon from 1992. Sam Green Īfter the film opened, Baekeland's former lover, Samuel Adams Green (played by Dancy in the film), wrote an article pointing out that elements in the film were factually inaccurate, such as the ménage à trois scene of Barbara, Antony, and Sam having sex. Savage Grace was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay in 2008.
Peter Bradshaw writing in The Guardian gave the film four out of five stars, describing it as "a gripping, coldly brilliant and tremendously acted movie." Accolades The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has a 38% of approval, based on 89 reviews - the consensus reads "though visually compelling, the lamentable characters in Savage Grace make for difficult viewing." Metacritic, another review aggregator, reported the film had an average score of 51 out of 100, based on 28 reviews. The story begins with Antony's birth and follows the family to the time of his arrest for the murder of his mother.Ĭritics gave the film mixed reviews. The film is based on the true story of Barbara Daly Baekeland (Moore), her husband Brooks Baekeland (Dillane), heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune, and their only child Antony (Redmayne), who was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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