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Savage Grace

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4.9
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Original title
Savage Grace
Year
Running time
96 min.
Country
United States United States
Director
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Cast
Music
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Producer
Co-production United States-Spain-France;
Genre
Drama | Based on a true story
Synopsis
Julianne Moore stars in this dramatization of the shocking Barbara Daly Baekeland murder case, which happened in a posh London flat on Friday 17 November 1972. The bloody crime caused a stir on both sides of the Atlantic and remains one of the most memorable American Tragedies...
Awards
2008: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Best Screenplay
Critics' reviews
  • "'Savage Grace' comes up bland and seems to go nowhere in particular."
  • Julianne Moore proves game for anything in this pitch-black true-crime reconstruction."
  • "'Savage Grace' is a thoroughly disturbing story, told in a detached style rendering the overall experience an unsettling blend of lurid and vacuous."
  • "'Savage Grace' should have the force of Greek tragedy, but Kalin's chamber drama feels curiously stifling and flat, and Moore's volatile turn isn't enough to quicken its pulse."
  • "Living these lives, for these people, must have been sad and tedious, and so, inevitably, is their story, and it must be said, the film about it."
  • "Howard A. Rodman's script has a lot of juice, and the rhythms are so pregnant that the air vibrates with something, even if you're not sure what. "
  • "The director, Tom Kalin, stages acid duels, but he should have provided more psychological structure. Though Moore, a great actress, turns fury into verbal music, we're never quite sure what's driving her"
  • "The film walks the fine line between exploitation and empathy to cast a chilly, memorable spell"
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User history
Savage Grace
2007
Tom Kalin
4.9
(1,510)
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