Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan Gold once wrote, “Entire religions have been founded on miracles less profound than the Ensenada fish taco.” This is how I feel about the profoundly excellent ...
Savage Grace is a twisted drama movie that centers on a depressive mother who marries a wealthy man named Brooks Baekeland. Together, they have a child named Antony, who turns out to be homosexual.
“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 ...
"Savage Grace" is an unfortunate mess of a movie. Pointless and precious, it suffers from dreary direction, egregious overacting, a string of meaningless scenes and a painfully affected script. We ...
That eternally fascinating duo Decadence and Dysfunction rear their pretty heads in “Savage Grace,” a crushingly unsuccessful glimpse into the lives of the rich, peripatetic heirs of the Bakelite ...
Fortunately, you can see both Moore and Redmayne at their best in the same movie, and reappraise a great and wrongly maligned work while you’re at it. Tom Kalin’s 2007 “Savage Grace,” his first ...
Tom Kalin‘s 1992 film “Swoon” was a noteworthy entry in the New Queer Cinema canon not because of its subject matter but how Kalin navigated such precarious terrain. A recouping of the Leopold and ...
Art dealer Sam Green admits he had an affair with Barbara Baekeland, the woman who married into a plastics fortune and was the subject of the 2007 film "Savage Grace." But Green is adamantly denying ...
Stephen Dillane has signed on to star in the horror, Savage Grace for Celluloid Dreams and Killer Films/Monfort Producciones. Variety reports Dillane will play opposite Julianne Moore in the ...
On a recent day off, we decided (against all sane advice) to watch the indie movie Savage Grace. It stars On a recent day off, we decided (against all sane advice) to watch the indie movie Savage ...
With its themes of dynastic decline, incest, madness and death, the movie will inevitably draw comparisons with works by Visconti, Fassbinder and Godard. By Bernard Besserglik, The Associated Press ...