Savage Grace is woefully misjudged on so many levels that itвЂ™s hard to know where to start. TonyвЂ™s mental instability is becoming obvious and, as itвЂ™s a well known story, its not giving anything away to tell you that Tony stabs Barbara, orders Chinese, and eats it while he waits for the ambulance, though not before they have indulged in a drawn out and painfully disturbing sex scene. Sam (Dancy), BarbaraвЂ™s art dealer, visits them, encouraging Barbara to start painting again, and ends up sleeping first with Barbara, then with Tony, and finally with both of them at the same time. It is at this point that Barbara and TonyвЂ™s relationship, already worryingly co-dependent, becomes mutually destructive. Unfortunately for Barbara, Blanca also catches BrooksвЂ™ eye, and soon the two have moved in together. Brooks doesnвЂ™t want to accept this while Barbara, seemingly in the hope of вЂcuringвЂ™ him, encourages him to sleep with girls, including Blanca (), a pretty Spanish girl he meets on the beach. Nonetheless they manage to produce a child, the longed-for heir, Tony (Redmayne), and set off for Europe (its never really explained why).ДЄt this point the film jumps from New York to Paris to Spain and a period of about ten years passes suddenly Tony is fully grown and its clear that he is gay.

The toast of New York, Brooks and Barbara have nothing in common, and their marriage is a lot like torture: Brooks is embarrassed by BarbaraвЂ™s social climbing, and treats her with disdain in return she cheats on him publicly. (Note to filmmakers: just because a story is true, doesnвЂ™t necessarily make it interesting.) Anyway, Barbara is a middle class beauty who manages to get her hooks into Brooks Baekeland (Dillane), dilettante heir to the Bakelite fortune. Oh, and thereвЂ™s the usual great little short at the beginning too вЂ“ not as superb as Lifted, but close.ДЄbout as far from Wall.E as you can imagine, and as depressing as that film was uplifting, comes Savage Grace, the sordid tale of Barbara Daly Baekeland (Moore) and her decadent, dysfunctional life and death. Wall.E is a strong contender for film of the year so far and will do massive business. I donвЂ™t know how they do it but I just hope they carry right on. They have created another charming, touching, funny and beautiful film that is both timely and an instant classic. We all know how superlative Pixar are and yet somehow they raise the bar every time. I have just come out of a screening of Wall.E and вЂ“ well, move over, Son of Rambow.

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