![]() He’s insecure about not living up to his inventor grandfather’s genius she’s a narcissist who’s prone to violent outbursts. In this true story, which begins in the 1940s and ends tragically in the 1970s, Barbara is a social climber whose husband, Brooks (Stephen Dillane), is the heir to the Bakelite fortune. The same can be said of Julianne Moore’s Barbara Daly Baekeland, the monster at the centre of all the ugliness, an arch caricature that mixes the mannered speech of Diana Vreeland and the histrionics of Joan Crawford, all sheathed in a parade of Chanel suits and designer beach caftans, dahling. Savage Grace is an odd film pretty to look at yet painful to watch. Opens Friday, July 18, at the Cinemark Tinseltown Starring Julianne Moore and Stephen Dillane.
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