One Of 2008's Best Films, Savage Grace, On DVD!

One of my picks for top ten films of 2008 is Savage Grace, out on DVD this week. Talk about a great twisted stocking stuffer! Tom Kalin’s (Swoon) taste for transgresive tales continues with this perverse true crime saga of Barbara Baekland (Julianne Moore), the wealthy, beautiful and troubled wife of Brooks Baekland (Stephen Dillane), the heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. When Brooks left his wife for another woman, mother and son traveled around Europe and entered into an incestuous relationship which ended in murder. Julianne Moore gives a brave, fierce performance to the defiantly disturbed Barbara -- the scenes in which she flares up at a dinner party and at the airport are frighteningly revealing and exquisitely acted. A sequence where she wakes up in bed with her gay walker (Hugh Dancy) and son and start merrily laughing is funny and deranged at the same time. Stephen Dillane gives a cold aristocratic fervor to Brooks and Eddie Redmayne is quite wonderful as the poor doomed Tony. He has the right prissy, privileged attitude with that slight hint of decadence that makes the movie so sublimely twisted it should be retitled Mommie Fearest.