'Savage State' Review: A Visually Splendid but Dramatically Fuzzy Civil War-Era Drama
‘Savage State’ Review: A Visually Splendid but Dramatically Fuzzy Civil War-Era Drama Variety 1/28/2021 It could be argued that “Savage State” ultimately seems worse than it really is only because the opening scenes of this French-Canadian-produced period drama are so deceptively promising. But, really, writer-director David Perrault (“Our Heroes Died Tonight”) has no one to blame but himself. Despite any good will (or at least simple curiosity) he might generate during his intriguingly offbeat first-act set-up, he actively encourages his visually splendid but dramatically fuzzy...