'Savage House' Review: A Caustic Period Comedy of Social Climbing and Ruin
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Guy Lodge
Summary
Peter Glanz's period comedy 'Savage House' follows two rancid social climbers (played by Claire Foy and Richard E. Grant) whose desperate pursuit of status leads to brutal humiliation. The film, arriving 12 years after Glanz's debut, is a mordantly amusing tale of pretense and profligacy that owes a clear debt to 'The Favourite' and similar caustic costume dramas. Performed with gusto, the sophomore feature is sharper and more distinguished than Glanz's earlier work.
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Variety'Savage House' Review: A Caustic Period Comedy of Social Climbing and Ruinvariety.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledFaces are saved, barely, as the body goes wholly to ruin in 'Savage House,' a mordantly amusing tale of pretense, profligacy and the literally maddening pressures of the English class ladder
Arriving 12 years after his debut, the derivative indie romcom 'The Longest Week,' Peter Glanz's sophomore feature is an altogether sharper and more distinguished affair
Performed with gusto by Richard E. Grant and Claire Foy
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