Savage Grace Page #3

Synopsis: The true story of the beautiful and charismatic but mentally unstable Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Their only child is a failure in his father's eyes, and as he matures and becomes increasingly close to his alienated mother, the seeds for tragedy are sown.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Tom Kalin
Production: IFC First Take
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
39%
NOT RATED
Year:
2007
97 min
$243,055
Website
398 Views


the world as we know it today.

- That was your father?

- No, that was my grandfather.

My father is a crapule.

My grandfather decidedly was not.

- What does Papa do?

- How do you mean?

- Well, Franois at the...

- At the cole?

- Franois asked me...

- You can tell him, "My father writes.

"My father explores.

"My father has

a very refined knowledge of mathematics. "

Oh.

And you can tell him that your mother

was almost a movie star.

Do you find my wife attractive?

Most men do.

But what she doesn't...

what Barbara doesn't realize...

is that women find me...

you know...

attractive.

Some people's fathers,

some people's mothers,

they have to go to an office or a factory

or a store, I guess, every day.

But we are fortunate...

because what we do

is what we love.

What does Franois' father do?

- He works.

- Ah, well, we worked.

I mean, Father worked, Nini worked.

There was no other way.

I kind of had to raise myself,

and then I worked, too - at Filene's.

Then when I could, I left.

I just left.

Nini wanted what was best for me -

only what was best for me.

"Find the mon," she'd say.

She meant "man," I guess,

and she meant "money. "

The rich, they don't have

pet names for money.

Did you know Leonardo da Vinci

wrote backwards?

So you could only read it in a mirror.

- Entrez.

- Hi.

Carlos!

Pilar!

My, you're looking swell!

Gracias.

Mrs. Baekeland, permit me

to introduce Monsieur Souvestre.

Jean-Pierre,

I am so happy to meet you.

Please, come in.

I have been dying to ask you

about Marcel Proust,

your biography of whom

I have yet to read

as my French reading skills

are not what they will be.

It is not necessary

to apologize for that.

Brooks reads the language

like a native.

And our Tony is mastering it every day

at the cole bilingue.

But for poor moi, I must confess,

it's been a struggle, n'est-ce pas?

Understood.

What was I saying?

Oh... yes.

Jean-Pierre,

was Proust truly a homosexual?

Qu'est-ce que tu penses?

So you met Carlos here in Paris?

I was at the Sorbonne, the adoring

graduate student writing about his work.

But then... we woke up one morning

and none of that seemed to matter.

I think I knew he was serious

when he introduced me

to Marcel and Teeny Duchamp.

Oh! I ran into them today,

at I'quipe.

They said they might

stop over... later.

Je peux lui telephoner?

You may be assured

they were only being polite.

I don't want to be impolite, but

M. Souvestre has the early day tomorrow.

He's off to Vittel.

It is regrettable,

but what Mrs. Durn says is the truth.

Un petit caf for the road?

And you've yet to meet Tony.

Excusez-moi.

Monsieur Souvestre, permettez-moi

de vous prsenter mon fils, Tony.

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Howard A. Rodman

Howard A. Rodman is a screenwriter, author and educator. He is the former President of the Writers Guild of America, West; professor and former chair of the writing division at the USC School of Cinematic Arts; and an artistic director of the Sundance Institute Screenwriting Labs. He is the son of screenwriter Howard Rodman (1920–1985). more…

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