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Fierce Creature.
Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker
Julianne Moore stars in Savage Grace. John Powers reviews.
With her blazing-red hair and bracing lack of vanity, Julianne Moore has made a career of playing women on the borderline between sanity and madness, respectability and transgression. You get all that and more in Savage Grace, Tom Kalin's cool, sometimes droll period piece about Barbara Daly Baekeland, whose real life story was a tabloid fiesta of money, kinky sex, and murder.
When we first meet Barbara in 1946 New York, she's given up her career as a small-time actress to marry the heir to the Bakelite fortune, Brooks Baekeland (Stephen Dillane). He's a misanthropic bully with no apparent interest in either his wife, whom he thinks a social-climbing twit, or their infant son, Tony. The Baekelands wander from Paris to Cadaques to London, but despite the family's lush surroundings, they only sink deeper into seediness. By the time Brooks runs off with a lovely Spanish chica, the needy Barbara has begun treating her son, now teenaged and gay, as something of a surrogate husband. Unable to escape either his father's iciness or his mother's unseemly passion, Tony starts to turn dangerously unhinged, becoming (as he puts it) "the steam when hot meets cold."
Hopscotching from scandal to scandal, Savage Grace exerts the lurid pull one associates with Jacqueline Susann. You keep watching to see what could ...
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