It’s too desperate, too confused, too pleased with its petty shocks to rile anything you’d recognize as genuine excitement.
This thing was written and directed by Emerald Fennell, whose previous movie was “Promising Young Woman,” a horror flick about rape that was also a revenge comedy.
These two meet, in earnest, when Oliver loans Felix his bike, a moment Oliver’s been waiting for.
When Oliver tells Felix his father’s just died, Felix extends his Saltburn invitation out of sincere compassion.
He’s the one nonwhite major character in “Saltburn,” a fact the movie considers doing something intriguing with but abandons.
Persons:
“, you’ll, It’s, Emerald Fennell, Fennell’s, Hitchcock, Patricia Highsmith, Oliver Quick he’s, We’re, Oxford — bookish Oliver, Barry Keoghan, rakish Felix, Jacob Elordi, —, Bernard, Oliver, Felix, — John Hughes, Fennell, father’s, Felix’s, Elspeth, Rosamund Pike, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe, Felix who’s, Farleigh
Organizations:
Oxford, HBO
Locations:
Saltburn