Saltburn (2023)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/1.33:1 131m
Director: Emerald Fennell
Cast: Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Archie Madekwe, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Paul Rhys, Alison Oliver
Synopsis:
A Merseyside state school student arrives in Oxford in 2006, destined to be cast out from the in-crowd by his unworldliness and shortage of funds. Then his luck changes and he befriends the Sebastian Flyte of the college, scion of vaguely bohemian landed gentry, to whose seat he is invited to spend the summer.
Review:
The film's antecedents, to which one might add any Losey/Pinter film and Roeg/Cammell's Performance, are uncomfortably present from the off; but then there is the highly resolved colour and the sense of something not quite right, so that one wonders just where writer-director-producer Fennell is taking us. We end up being in the land of queasily shocking TV shows such as Fleabag and Inside Number Nine, and the cast acts it up superbly, but in the end the film does not sustain interest for its length. It is not that Keoghan, in his first leading role, cannot cut it, but that his part is underwritten. We just don't care.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/1.33:1 131m
Director: Emerald Fennell
Cast: Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Archie Madekwe, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Paul Rhys, Alison Oliver
Synopsis:
A Merseyside state school student arrives in Oxford in 2006, destined to be cast out from the in-crowd by his unworldliness and shortage of funds. Then his luck changes and he befriends the Sebastian Flyte of the college, scion of vaguely bohemian landed gentry, to whose seat he is invited to spend the summer.
Review:
The film's antecedents, to which one might add any Losey/Pinter film and Roeg/Cammell's Performance, are uncomfortably present from the off; but then there is the highly resolved colour and the sense of something not quite right, so that one wonders just where writer-director-producer Fennell is taking us. We end up being in the land of queasily shocking TV shows such as Fleabag and Inside Number Nine, and the cast acts it up superbly, but in the end the film does not sustain interest for its length. It is not that Keoghan, in his first leading role, cannot cut it, but that his part is underwritten. We just don't care.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/1.33:1 131m
Director: Emerald Fennell
Cast: Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Archie Madekwe, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Paul Rhys, Alison Oliver
Synopsis:
A Merseyside state school student arrives in Oxford in 2006, destined to be cast out from the in-crowd by his unworldliness and shortage of funds. Then his luck changes and he befriends the Sebastian Flyte of the college, scion of vaguely bohemian landed gentry, to whose seat he is invited to spend the summer.
Review:
The film's antecedents, to which one might add any Losey/Pinter film and Roeg/Cammell's Performance, are uncomfortably present from the off; but then there is the highly resolved colour and the sense of something not quite right, so that one wonders just where writer-director-producer Fennell is taking us. We end up being in the land of queasily shocking TV shows such as Fleabag and Inside Number Nine, and the cast acts it up superbly, but in the end the film does not sustain interest for its length. It is not that Keoghan, in his first leading role, cannot cut it, but that his part is underwritten. We just don't care.