“Saltburn” is a film that was released in 2023. It was directed and written by Emerald Fennell. The film stars Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, and Archie Madekwe. It’s a comedy-drama-thriller about a student at Oxford University who finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family’s sprawling estate for a summer.
The film is set in England in the mid-2000s and follows an Oxford University student who becomes obsessed with a wealthy fellow student within his college, who invites him to spend the summer at his eccentric family’s estate. The film had its world premiere at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on 31 August 2023, and was released in the United Kingdom on 17 November 2023, and in the United States via a limited theatrical release the same day, then a wide release on 22 November.
The film has received generally positive reviews from critics. It has an IMDb rating of 7.5/10. The film is rated R for strong sexual content, graphic nudity, language throughout, some disturbing violent content, and drug use.