FILM OF THE WEEK: Savage House – Reviewed by Roe McDermott

Aristocratic period satire finds comedy in the rot beneath the finery. There are remnants of both The Favourite and The Great in Savage House, as genteel society is revealed to be every bit as disgusting, debauched, ridiculous, frivolous and sex-obsessed as it accuses the lower orders of being. The idea of stench, rot, decay and infection seeps from the film’s pores, […]