Opening today at the IFC Center is Tom Kalin’s long awaited second feature film after Swoon. Savage Grace tells the incredible true story of Barbara Daly, who married above her class into the Brooks Baekeland clan. Spanning from the late 40’s to the early 70’s, the film describes a mother and son’s heady rise and tragic fall against the backdrop of world locations including New York, Paris, Cadaques, Mallorca and London. While a period tragedy, the story is embued with contemporary significance, as well as humor, light and life. Below you’ll find some shaky and choppy video I captured during the Director’s Fortnight press conference at the Cannes Film Festival back in 2007.
Clip 1: Here Tom Kalin discusses the on screen treatment and representation of mental illness and how, here viewers will discover the gravity of it once the story unfolds and places the characters well beyond normality.
Clip 2: Julianne Moore discusses how the Baekelands might have been perceived as normal by all appearances.
Clip #3. Julianne Moore discusses how she was attached herself to the project followed by her comments on the on the functions of the mise-en-scene.
