Saltburn
Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.
- Released:
- Runtime: 131 minutes
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thrillers
- Stars: Tasha Lim, Glyn Grimstead, Rosamund Pike, Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Richard E. Grant, Carey Mulligan, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe, Sadie Soverall, Paul Rhys, Reece Shearsmith, Ewan Mitchell, Matthew Carver, Dorothy Atkinson, Shaun Dooley, Tomás Barry, Richard Cotterell, Lolly Adefope, Andy Brady
- Director: Emerald Fennell
Comments
- ja-77187 - 29 June 2024
Just a warning
Well, if I had to describe the feeling I felt watching this film, it would definitely be the same feeling as wearing five layers of clothes in the infernal heat after catching a virus and vomiting so much that your throat starts to hurt and your vomit comes out green even though you haven't eaten anything all day, Apart from this sensation, It definitely was very good, but I felt a little stupid for not connecting the facts and understanding what was happening, So depending on what your parents are like, I wouldn't recommend watching it in the living room at a family lunch, just in case, I don't know how brave anyone reading this is, but I warned. - sadmansakibayon - 11 June 2024
Disappointing
By the time I finished watching Saltburn, I could have placed a really large bet that the film had been written by someone from a rich, elite background, with a lot more in common with the family that owns Saltburn than with the striving middle-class character played by Barry Keoghan. Looking into the background of Fennell I discovered I was right, born in luxury went to the most expensive private school in the UK before going to Oxford herself.
I could tell this because while the film appears on the surface to be a critique of moneyed elites, it ends up being a reactionary conservative piece with a lot more empathy for its moneyed characters than for any person below high class. Barry Keoghan's character appears in the middle of this family as a disrupter but also seen as a predator who is so jealous of the privilege of the Saltburn family that he will go to any lengths to harm and destroy them so that he can replace them in the social order.
The rich family, the Cattons, are shown as vapid and superficial but not as being particularly evil, we never get to know how they made their money, we never see them exploiting or mistreating the working classes, in fact they seem to be surrounded by parasites that live off them. Poor rich people indeed. However, I don't think this was Fennell's intention, it's just how it comes across. In that sense it is an unfortunate misfire. In spite of all its reactionary politics there is plenty to recommend the film, some stunning visuals and a truly great cast, as well as a slurpy scene which can come (pun intended) to replace Chalamet's peach in Call Me By Your Name or even Keoghan's own spag bol eating scene in Killing of a Sacred Deer as one of the more deliciously disgusting scenes in cinema.
