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DVD review: Savage Grace

A shocking and lurid tale told in a remarkably subtle way, Savage Grace is the story of a languid, filthy rich and, of course, dysfunctional family. Julianne Moore is the chillingly self-absorbed wife of the heir to the Bakelite fortune, played insouciantly by Stephen Dillane. The film is narrated by their son, a boy of uncertain sexuality (Eddie Redmayne), who becomes part of a very odd menage a trois with his mother and her "walker". The plot would be pure twisted soap opera, were it not based closely on a true story whose tragic ending took place in London in 1972. An unremittingly perverse and sad film. (read more)