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Saltburn
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- 2023
- Emerald Fennell
- 130 mins
- 15
Summary
Black comedy thriller starring Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi. After shy Oxford University student Oliver crosses paths with rich classmate Felix, the two become unlikely friends and Felix invites Oliver back to Saltburn, his family's sprawling mansion, for the summer. But it soon transpires that this awkward outsider is not quite the harmless loner that he appeared to be.
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A star rating of 4 out of 5.
Matt Glasby
British director Emerald Fennell's follow-up to her incendiary and Oscar-winning Promising Young Woman is a spectacularly spiky thriller. A variant on Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr Ripley, it introduces awkward Oxford University student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan), who forms an unlikely friendship with good-looking toff Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi). When he is invited back to the Cattons' sprawling ancestral home, Saltburn, for the summer, Quick gets a taste for how the other half live. Felix's sister Venetia (Alison Oliver) compares him to a moth, "quiet, harmless, drawn to shiny things," but she's wrong in one crucial respect, and he soon starts to show his true colours. What follows is a blackly funny satire of the dreadfully rich, which gradually tips over into something much darker. The cast, which includes Richard E Grant, a cameoing Carey Mulligan and a scene-stealing Rosamund Pike as Felix's mother, are excellent. Though the film proves a little too invested in its own shocking reveals, you won't forget them in a hurry.
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Cast
rolenameOliver QuickBarry KeoghanFelix CattonJacob ElordiElspethRosamund PikeSir JamesRichard E GrantVenetiaAlison OliverFarleighArchie MadekwePamelaCarey Mulligan
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rolenameDirectorEmerald Fennell
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Theatrical distributor
Warner Bros
Released on
2023-11-17
Languages
English
Guidance
Violence, swearing, sex scenes, nudity, drug abuse
Formats
Colour
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