Saltburn

 

       The less said about this new film from writer/director Emerald Fennell, the better. If you are prepared for a debauched jolt to your senses, you won't be disappointed.

       Barry Keoghan stars as Oliver, a scholarship student at Oxford who befriends Felix (played by Jacob Elordi), his handsome and rich roommate. When Oliver tells Felix his father has died, Felix feels bad for him and invites Oliver to Saltburn, his family's estate for the summer. Oliver meets the rest of Felix's spoiled rich family and what happens from that point on, simply can't be described.

       Rosamund Pike and Richard E. Grant play Felix's parents, Lady Elspeth and Sir James. Alison Oliver plays Venetia, their daughter and Archie Madekwe is Farleigh, Felix's sarcastic American cousin. Cary Mulligan has an almost unrecognizable cameo as Pamela, Elspeth's friend.

       The plot, as is, has been done before but never to this extreme. The film is at once, funny, dramatic, intense, sensual, explicit, creepy and while a bit too neat, surprising. It's a polarizing story that will definitely leave an impact.

       It's still in some theaters and now available, streaming on Prime video.