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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #54 Savage Grace

Published on January 30, 2008

#54. Savage Grace

Director: Tom Kalin
Writers: Howard A. Rodman (Joe Gould’s Secret)
Producers: Pamela Koffler, Iker Monfort, Katie Roumel, Christine Vachon
Distributor: IFC First Take

The Gist: Based on the winning Mystery Writers of America in award for Best Fact Crimebook written by Natalie Robins and Steven M. L. Aronson, this tells the incredible true story of Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland (Moore), the dashing heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Beautiful, red-headed, charismatic, Barbara is still not a match for her well-born husband. The birth of the couple’s only child, Tony, rocks the uneasy balance in this marriage of extremes…

Fact: Kalin had not directed a feature length film since 1992’s Swoon.

See It: Delicious euro-flavored drama will get under the skin of many thanks to disturbing themes and chilling acting performances. Read my review here.

Release Date/Status?: After preeming at the Director’s Fortnight section at Cannes, IFC First Take will release this on the 28th of May.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).