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The final scene of Saltburn would have felt shocking had I not already sat through the other two hours of the film. By that point I was unshockable, up for anything, and wondering where else this deliciously, debaucherous hot mess of a movie could go.
This is why I have categorised Emerald Funnell’s (the incredibly clever mind behind Promising Young Woman) new movie as something you need to experience for yourself — even if it’s just so you know what everyone else is talking about. You have to be there. Literally. Sitting in a crowded cinema, gasping into your rapidly melting choc top, and wondering whether the baby boomers sitting two seats down from you are also squirming in their seats as someone on screen slurps up someone else’s post-masturbation bath water.
The slow-burning thriller follows Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan), a shy Oxford scholarship student who becomes friends with a wealthy classmate named Felix Catton (Australia’s 6’5’ Jacob Elordi), who then invites him to …
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