From a dramatic standpoint, the story is replete with the crises that plague the rich and entertain the rest of us - namely, betrayal, intrigue, and scandal. Kalin has filled his film with beautiful human specimens, from Hugh Dancy to Elena Anaya and Unax Ugalde. By the time Tony relays one of his grandfather's favorite dictums about money - that it "allows us to not live with the consequences of our mistakes" - it's just a matter of time before someone makes a mistake that money can't fix.Įarly on, of course, basking in the products of the Baekeland empire looks pretty good, and Mr. But like many aspects of this film, Leo's worldview, based mostly on a veneration for wealth, is not as unassailable as it seems. The inventor of Bakelite (the first plastic made from synthetic components) is revered by his grandson Brooks, and young Tony comes of age in the shadow of these two formidable men.
Kalin - whose last feature film, 1992's "Swoon," revisited the infamous Leopold and Loeb murder - makes it clear that all is not right in the world that Leo Baekeland built. But this marriage between the Bakelite heir and his beautiful, formerly working-class wife led to more than just a messy divorce.įrom the onset, Mr. Jetting between Paris, Majorca, and New York, Barbara and her husband, Brooks (Stephen Dillane), seemed to have the world at their fingertips. Based on the true story of one of the most sensational murder cases in American history, "Savage Grace" dissects life in the Baekeland family in the years leading up to Antony Baekeland's (Eddie Redmayne) cold-blooded murder of his mother, Barbara (Julianne Moore), in 1972.
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