‘Savage State’ Review: A Visually Splendid but Dramatically Fuzzy Civil War-Era Drama
Joe Leydon Film CriticIt 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.