Writer/Director Emerald Fennell’s sophomore feature, “Saltburn” is not unlike her Oscar-winning “Promising Young Woman” in that it features manipulation and men behaving badly. This story is told from the point of view of Oliver (Barry Keoghan, from “The Banshees of Inisherin” and "Eternals") who befriends the wealthy and handsome Felix (Jacob Elordi) at Oxford.
Oliver is a scholarship student, but he helps Felix out of a jam, and his kindness is repaid a thousandfold. Oliver is eventually invited to summer at Saltburn, Felix’s family estate. Felix’s mother, Elspeth (Rosamund Pike) and father Sir James (Richard E. Grant) welcome him, as does Felix’s sister, Venetia (Alison Oliver), but Felix’s cousin Farleigh (Archie Madekwe, from “Gran Turismo”) clocks Ollie as a sly fox. Needless to say, things good and bad start to happen. Lies are told, trouble ensues and before long, bodies pile up.
