Emerald Fennell’s ‘Saltburn’ To Open London Film Festival
deadline.comSaltburn, the latest film from Promising Young Woman filmmaker Emerald Fennell, will open this year’s London Film Festival.
Fennell also wrote and produced the pic, which will receive its International Premiere at LFF on October 4 at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, with simultaneous screenings across the UK.
Amazon Studios and MGM will release the pic in cinemas on November 24. Margot Robbie and Josey McNamara are also producers on the film.
Starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe, and Carey Mulligan, the film is billed as a “beautifully wicked tale of privilege and desire.” Set in the mid-2000s and shot in a variety of locations around the UK, the pic follows student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan), who is struggling to find his place at Oxford University and finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten. “I’m honored that our film is able to open this year’s BFI London Film Festival.
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