Starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe and Carey Mulligan. Produced, written and directed by Emerald Fennell. Running time: 131 minutes.
Feeling like a 21st Century reworking of Evelyn Waugh's classic Brideshead Revisited, Saltburn finds 'fish-out-of-water' working-class scholarship boy Oliver Quick, Barry Keoghan, arriving in Oxford and slowly drawn into the posh set by the seductive charms of super-rich Felix Elspeth, Jacob Elordi. With the summer holidays looming and Oliver grieving over the sudden death of his father, Felix invites him to stay with him and his eccentric family lead by Sir James and Lady Elspeth, Richard E. Grant and Rosamund Pike at the family pile of Saltburn, a staggering opulent and sprawling stately home in Buckinghamshire.
What follows is a slow and unsettling decent into deception, seduction and ultimately murder most foul as truths are revealed and lies discovered.
Featuring a superb cast perfectly headed by Barry Keoghan who totally powns this film, but that's not to take anything away from the rest of the cast who are all superb in their respective roles.
Darkly funny, sinister and refreshingly nasty, this is a good looking film with some lovely flourishes including a very impressive naked dance.
Very satisfying. 8/10
What follows is a slow and unsettling decent into deception, seduction and ultimately murder most foul as truths are revealed and lies discovered.
Featuring a superb cast perfectly headed by Barry Keoghan who totally powns this film, but that's not to take anything away from the rest of the cast who are all superb in their respective roles.
Darkly funny, sinister and refreshingly nasty, this is a good looking film with some lovely flourishes including a very impressive naked dance.
Very satisfying. 8/10
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