If you did a line of coke off a copy ofBrideshead Revisited,you might approximate theSaltburnviewing experience.
Saltburnis a darkly luscious portrait of obsession and visceral wanting.
Cinematographer Linus Sandgren’s lens evokes the baroque darkness of Caravaggio and the rococo trappings of Gainsborough.
Barry Keoghan and Archie Madekwe in ‘Saltburn’.Courtesy of MGM and Amazon Studios
As Oliver, Keoghan turns in a towering performance, sinister and irresistible in equal measure.
Neither Keoghan nor Fennell are afraid to expose the sociopathic consequences of obsession.
It’s the best work of his career without question.
Barry Keoghan in ‘Saltburn’.Courtesy of MGM and Amazon Studios
After all, it’s so very Mary Shelley.
Want more movie news?
Jacob Elordi in ‘Saltburn’.Courtesy of MGM and Amazon Studios
Rosamund Pike in ‘Saltburn’.Amazon/MGM
