THE camp melodrama “Savage Grace” thrills to the soapy decadence of the Baekeland family, the heirs to the Bakelite plastics fortune who got mixed up in a drama of homosexuality, adultery and incest while managing to look bored throughout.
Eddie Redmayne, who played Matt Damon’s son in “The Good Shepherd,” plays an extravagantly blasé young mama’s boy swanning around Paris, Majorca and London while his jet-setting parents (Stephen Dillane, Julianne Moore) squabble. The son revels in his love for other exquisite boys as his mother turns into a creepy battle-ax who seems to feel left out of his affairs.
As the violins swell and everyone tries to look marvelously careless, we head for a yummy little tragedy. The movie is based on a true story, but for all its outré set pieces (at one point Mommy wakes up in bed with her darling son and his gay lover, leading to a morning romp) it never rises above the level of pretentious trash.
Running time: 100 minutes. Not rated (sex, profanity, nudity, drug use). At the IFC Center and the 62nd and Broadway.