Having won an Oscar for her gritty first film about a revenge murder, Emerald Fennell’s second movie, out this week, reminds us that she doesn’t believe in happy endings.
Saltburn is about a vengeful college student who aspires to an even wider death toll. Why would this charismatic young British actress want to become cinema’s doyenne of dark?
It’s not that she’s adrift in indie obscurity. Saltburn is funded by Amazon MGM Studios with Warner Bros International distributing overseas.
And her co-producer is Margot Robbie, the effervescent Barbie who made the world blink pink. Fennell, like Greta Gerwig, who directed Barbie, is a mega talented actress who also managed to hit the mark as a filmmaker.
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