Since the release of Emerald Fennel’s posh thriller Saltburn, Gen Z viewers have become entranced by the lavish lifestyle and Noughties University experience of the wealthy upper-class characters depicted in the new movie.
The film stars Barry Keoghan as Oliver Quick, the middle-class interloper who poses himself as a scholarship student from a working-class background to win the friendship of Jacob Elordi’s wealthy aristocrat Felix Catton. Quick joins Catton at his family home, called Saltburn – a large British countryside mansion estate with acres of land – for the summer holidays.
