‘Saltburn’ Review: Emerald Fennell’s Latest Has An Undeniable Life Force Despite Its Split Personality – Telluride Film Festival
deadline.comThe haves and have-nots of Great Britain have always served as ripe subject matter for writers of every stripe and the tradition continues in Saltburn, a vibrant if rather familiar take on the class system circa 2006.
Emerald Fennell, following up on her Oscar-winning script for Promising Young Woman, reveals a strong hand behind the camera, even if the trajectory of the story feels rather overwrought and familiar.
Nonetheless, the writing is alive and often amusing, giving the fine cast a lot to play with. At the center of things is Oliver Quick, a name of which Dickens certainly would have approved.
Very engagingly played by Barry Keoghan, who broke through last year in The Banshees of Inisherin, Oliver is a teenager without parents whose looks are both odd and appealing and who is determined to break through the class and expectations barrier to make something of himself.
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