This beautifully filmed and acted movie is not easy to watch. Director Tom Kalin compellingly recounts the real-life circumstances and events that led to the murder of socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland (Julianne Moore) at the hands of her son (Eddie Redmayne) in 1972. The story, which features a mother-son relationship that is very disturbing and ultimately very sad, doesn?t shy away from its subject matter. Infidelity, family dysfunction and incest are all part of the. SAVAGE GRACE, based on the award winning book, tells the incredible true story of Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, the dashing heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Some people have criticized this film for its unemotional look at some very non-sympathetic characters, but I found it more disturbing and factual in doing so. Beautiful, red-headed and charismatic, Barbara is still no match for her well-bred husband.
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