Savage House

“Polite society has never been so Savage.”

In a grand English country estate, Sir Chauncey Savage (Richard E. Grant) and Lady Savage (Claire Foy) preside over ornate rooms and exacting rituals. A young governess, Dorothy Neville (Bel Powley), arrives to tutor their daughter, and the carefully balanced machinery of decorum begins to crack. The film watches as desire and ambition unravel the formal distance between Dorothy and Reginald Halifax (Jack Farthing), a visitor caught between duty and wanting her.