In Savage Grace, Barbara’s victimization draws her, Medea-like, toward a cool, perverse form of vengeance.Īstoundingly, Savage Grace’s Barbara Baekeland was a real woman.
Granted, Moore’s Barbara Baekeland is no suffering naïf, which is the most significant change from her previous roles. She has embraced the character type in a way old movie stars used to embrace them-as a means by which to plumb the conceptual depths of a persona, and to brand it as her own-thus making her performance endlessly fascinating to watch. With Savage Grace, Julianne Moore plays a mid-century housewife for the fourth time in her career (the other three were for Far From Heaven, The Hours and The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio), but she shows no signs of fatigue or boredom.
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