Savage grace 2007
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Rodman, tasked with adapting the largely celebrated book by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Savage Grace even begins with his birth.īut there’s something curiously hesitant about this film, as if screenwriter Howard A. It doesn’t, of course, excuse his behavior-he went on to attempt to murder his grandmother, fail, and commit suicide in jail-but it seems like the obvious hook to hang a narrative adaptation of this story on. It’s a very tragic story, especially from Anthony’s point of view as a neglected child suffering with mental illness and his mother’s warped homophobia. ( The Daily Mail has a lurid and therefore typically Daily Mail rundown of the whole affair, if you are so inclined.) Wealth, exotic locales, sexual taboos, murder, and midcentury clothing: it’s a wonder that the Baekelands didn’t make it to the silver screen before 2007. Their relationship had always been tempestuous, from Barbara’s insanely high expectations to their struggles with mental illness without any real support (Anthony, in particular, was diagnosed as schizophrenic but his father refused to pay for his medical care) to Barbara being so hellbent on curing Anthony’s homosexuality that she allegedly had sex with him. Barbara Daly Baekeland, a glamorous New York socialite turned idle rich wife, was murdered by her son Anthony in London in 1972. If you are going to make a film about the Baekeland murder, a story rich with psychological drama, intrigue, and, yes, incest, why would you ever make it so… bloodless?įor those of you unfamiliar with the Baekeland murder, as I was a few days ago, let me bring you up to speed. I mean, there are two very compelling reasons for Savage Grace to exist-the lives of Barbara Daly Baekeland and her son Anthony absolutely brim with scandal and that prelude to a threesome scene with Julianne Moore, Hugh Dancy, and Eddie Redmayne that you know from tumblr-but these are reasons for its genesis, not justification for its rather lackluster existence.
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Based on the book by by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L.