“Saltburn”- Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi are GAY in new movie

Elordi is fine but nothing special. Keoghan is a phenomenal talent though

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I fucking hate Emerald Fennell. Horrible, horrible director and a terrible writer, to boot. And as talented as he may be, no one wants to see extra chromosome Barry Keoghan in a gay sex scene.

R4 yet we both know you will watch

If you say so, dear.

Emerald Fennell said THIS IS A STAR

I rather liked Promising Young Woman.

R8 agreed. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would

Another lovely shot of Jacob

It closed Telluride night one tonight and almost everyone who saw it that is tweeting about it says the same thing. that it’s a ballsy movie with great screenplay and Barry Keoghan is phenomenal, giving his best performance, but the film will be as divisive with viewers as Promising Young Woman or even Babylon.

Barry Keoghan is the best Asian-Irish actor ever!

“Emerald Fennell... you naughty little filmmaker. #Saltburn is her take on "The Talented Mr. Ripley" meets "Cruel Intentions." Barry Keoghan goes for it, and then some. Delicious head to toe. Liked it more than "Promising Young Woman" but not many will feel that way. Loved. #Telluride”

“Saltburn is the most batshit crazy film that you will see all year. It’s exquisitely shot with a terrific score. Barry Keoghan delivers one of the most ballsy and ambitious performances of the year. It definitely goes off the rails and is sure to divide audiences. #Saltburn”

“#Saltburn is a wild and savage tale of lies, lust, and social status. Brilliant screenplay. Going to be one of the best films of the year. #TellurideFilmFestival”

“Keoghan is at the top of his game and Elordi was great. Needed a little more with his role, and I may need another visit to think about the ending.

Linus Sandgren just won himself the Oscar for Best Cinematography

what a great start to the #TellurideFilmFestival”

“Woo buddy, no one can ever accuse Emerald Fennel of not going full send. Just an all time WTF walk out of the theatre. Loved Koeghan going all out, Jacob Elordi was great getting something to work with. Can’t wait for others to see this one.”

“Emerald Fennell made a nasty, nasty, pitch black comedy that will take me days to process. #Saltburn will be the most divisive film of the year. Far moreso than Promising Young Woman. Brilliantly made though.”

“Emerald Fennell goes there in Saltburn, an audacious and savage film. Barry Keoghan has never been better and it looks spectacular. Tons of laughs, but it’s as dark as it gets. I love that @emeraldfennell movies exist!”

This poster says that if you were to critique the movie by comparison to other films, this one is

3/5ths The Talented Mr. Ripley

1/5th Cruel Intentions

1/5th Parasite

He also said it’s too predictable though.

Jacob Elordi’s character in #Saltburn could have easily become a caricature of a wealthy, directionless youth, but the ‘Euphoria’ star delivered an “unbelievably potent, relaxed, real performance.”

“I’ll remember the world premiere screening of SALTBURN for a long time. A total sicko blast, from hypnotic start to chaotic (maybe too chaotic?) end. Barry Keoghan God-tier, and Rosamund Pike stealth MVP. Reeling. #Telluride”

Important question:

Are they gay for a frau audience?

Or gay for an actual gay male audience?

I'd probably watch it on the strength of that 3-second clip of Rosamund Pike alone.

R24 when I saw she was in this I said the same. I will watch because she’s in it. I like her a lot.

A review.

Variety tore the movie apart, but praised Keoghan’s performance

IndieWire says it’s a hot and silly mess. It’s basically The Talented Mr. Ripley dressed In Abercrombie & Fitch. However, it praised Barry Keoghan and Rosamund Pike is a scene stealer

Everyone is saying it’s a divisive film. It’s one you’re either gonna love or hate, no in between. The reviews are showing that to be true.

Deadline gives it a mediocre review

Vanity Fair liked it

THR gave it a mediocre review

All this chatterjust makes me want to see it more.

Yes. I want to see this. It seems to be a very divisive film.

LA Times was not a big fan

A more divided reception greeted Emerald Fennell’s glossily mounted but increasingly laborious and empty “Saltburn,” which held its first screening the same evening. And on paper at least, this dark comedy of manorly manners suggests a cynical rejoinder to Haigh’s otherworldly humanism: It’s also written and directed by an English filmmaker, set around a cavernous piece of real estate and centered on one man as he forges a tentative, increasingly tempestuous bond with another. (Both movies also strategically deploy Pet Shop Boys on the soundtrack; here, too, “All of Us Strangers” has the upper hand.)

“Saltburn,” however, isn’t a love story; it’s a wannabe-twisted thriller about dark fantasies, brutal class disparities and thwarted lust, especially the lust for power and attention. Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan), an unloved but wily Oxford student, develops an obsessive attachment to Felix (a very good Jacob Elordi, from “Euphoria”), a classmate who eclipses him and just about everyone else in beauty, wealth and popularity. Worming his way into Felix’s good graces with compulsive lies and tactical favors, Oliver scores an invitation to spend the summer at Saltburn, the palatial countryside estate where Felix lives with his studiedly eccentric clan. (They’re played by Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver and, in the movie’s sharpest performance, Rosamund Pike, nailing the appalling blitheness of the idle rich like no one else here.)

The setup is basically “Brideshead Revisited” by way of “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” though Keoghan’s unsubtly creepazoid performance is reptilian without being remotely chameleon-like. Oliver might well freak you out, whether he’s tonguing a semen-slicked bathtub drain, staining his fingers with menstrual blood or matching wits with a rival for the family’s affections (Archie Madekwe, offering a more compelling portrait of seething class resentment). But there’s nothing particularly insinuating about Keoghan’s dead-eyed stares, and nothing persuasive about his attempts at charm. It’s all too painfully obvious that the dark side of Oliver’s desire for Felix will eventually spring violently into the open, and that obviousness soon chokes the life out of the movie’s every elegantly boxy frame.

Had it arrived four years earlier, amid the spate of class-conscious thrillers like “Parasite,” “Knives Out” and “Joker,” Fennell’s version of an eat-the-rich satire might have seemed at least thematically au courant. But emerging in 2023 (it opens Nov. 24 in limited release before expanding Dec. 1), her evisceration of upper-class cluelessness barely lands. The closing stretch is interminable: a grating display of misanthropic excess, with two jejune sight gags (one of which can only be described as a grave violation) that speak less to a sociopath’s psychology than a filmmaker’s self-intoxication. I didn’t love Fennell’s Oscar-winning debut feature, “Promising Young Woman,” which also felt overly infatuated with its own daring, but it had at least enough tonal twists and surprises to keep you off-balance. “Saltburn” is shocking only in its puerility. No sophomore effort should feel this sophomoric.

I never understood Jacob Elordi's appeal, but he does have a nice personality.

I'm starting to see why some of you here are so enamored with him.

Plus, at 6'5, he must be quite an imposing figure.

I’m looking forward to it. I love Barry. I’m so happy he got an Oscar nomination for The Banshees of Inisherin.