Emerald Fennell burst onto the scene as a writer/director with the brilliant and hard-edged Promising Young Woman in 2020, creating a great deal of excitement for her second directorial outing, Saltburn. Well, her sophomore outing will definitely have you talking, with a good bit of what happens needing to be seen to be believed. But how much you enjoy everything that happens on screen is going to vary.
For myself, I found Saltburn to be a darkly funny dip into depravity and class warfare with a great leading performance from Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin) and some memorable supporting turns. However, while still pushing boundaries, the movie lacked some of the qualities that Promising Young Woman had, making it a less enjoyable watch overall.
