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Savage Grace
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May 30, 2008 – July 24, 2008
Daily
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- Price
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$11.50
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Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life rarely commands the dramatic tension of fiction; but if too many details are fudged, protests fly. Savage Grace, about society couple Barbara Daly (Julianne Moore) and Brooks Baekeland and their son Tony, solves that dilemma with both terrible and absolutely mesmerizing results. The film very stagily divides into six acts of Tony's life, as dictated by the rampant narcissists ostensibly parenting him. The art direction, cinematography, and wardrobe — glittering and precise — recreate the glamorous torpor in which these people so casually committed the emotional larceny that proved their lasting legacy.
