Savage House

2026

Certificate 15 – PERIOD COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Peter Glanz
With Claire Foy, Richard E Grant
Runtime: 113 mins

Set in 18th-century England, Savage House follows Sir Chauncey Savage (Richard E. Grant), a gloriously unscrupulous social climber propped up by debt and bravado. When the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire invite themselves to dinner, Chauncey and his razor-sharp wife, Lady Savage (Claire Foy), launch a bid to impress. As preparations spiral into duels, decadence and bloodshed, their performance careens out of control. A darkly comic satire of class, spectacle, and the art of appearing important.

WHY WATCH THIS FILM? To see two actors at the top of their game.

“Uproariously funny, suddenly bleak and then tragically poignant, often within the same sequence.” The Times

“A more ambitious and genuinely subversive film would have dug deeper into the screenplay’s weirder and most visceral impulses, but this is an amusing diversion powered by two game performances.” Radio Times

“It’s all a bit strenuous but Foy and Grant are such class acts that they make this watchable.” The Guardian