WATCH: Is this the next ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’? Your first look at the sexy, sordid ‘Saltburn’
people you got into—we bet they’ve got noting on sordid saga of Saltburn.From filmmaker Emerald Fennell, the “promising young woman” behind Promising Young Woman, comes a “twisted Gothic tale” of privilege and obsession that’s pretty immediately one of our most anticipated films of the fall season.Our protagonist is the young Oliver Quick (The Banshees Of Inisherin‘s Barry Keoghan), an outcast Oxford University student who, unlike most of his peers, doesn’t come from money.Oliver finds himself transfixed by fellow student Felix Catton (Euphoria‘s Jacob Elordi)—who has just that effect on people.
Perhaps out of pity, Felix invites the lonely outsider to spend the summer at his family’s lavish estate, Saltburn, and that’s really where the story begins…Plot details beyond that intriguing set-up are scarce, but Fennell has said she was inspired by classic British gothic and romantic stories set among the country homes of the elite, like Brideshead Revisited and The Remains Of The Day.Readers have long-debated the gay themes of ‘Brideshead Revisited,’ but this beautiful adaptation made them loud and clear.Of course, if you saw her debut, Oscar-nominated feature Promising Young Woman, you’ll know that Fennell has some tricks up her sleeve—and a tendency to push things in the most shocking direction possible.
A tantalizing preview of Saltburn in Vanity Fair promises, the film “doesn’t shy away from controversial themes, or visceral, sometimes erotic moments that are sure to stick with audiences.”There’s also the fact that, after early test screenings for the film, it was likened to the “be gay do crime” classic The Talented Mr.
