‘Saltburn’ trailer: Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi star in Emerald Fennell’s twisted drama [Watch]

There’s no place like home unless that home is Saltburn.

On Thursday, MGM and Amazon Studios released the first full trailer for Oscar winner Emerald Fennell’s upcoming drama “Saltburn,” a recent-history period piece about a striving young student (played by Barry Keoghan) whose life is forever altered when he spends the summer with the rich family of one of his fellow classmates (Jacob Elordi). 

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Here’s the official logline for the film, which is Fennell’s follow-up to “Promising Young Woman.”

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) brings us a beautifully wicked tale of privilege and desire. Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.

In addition to Keoghan and Elordi, “Saltburn” stars Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Archie Madekwe, Alison Oliver, and Carey Mulligan in a small but vital role that’s glimpsed briefly in the new trailer.

“Saltburn” debuted at this year’s Telluride Film Festival, and while some viewers there were taken aback by Fennell’s wickedly funny and sharp-edged satire, many others enjoyed the picture. It remains to be seen if “Saltburn” ultimately proves polarizing to broad audiences, but the film’s good sense of humor about itself – plus a light-on-its-feet performance from Keoghan in the lead role – will probably go a long way toward it winning over some big fans. 

Speaking at a screening in Los Angeles last week, Fennell said she hoped everyone would have a reaction to her film, one way or another. “Hate it, love it, be turned on, be freaked out…whatever it makes you feel. I want people to feel something,” she said. “That’s the reason you make a movie and not a TV show or write a book.”

Noting she hoped “Saltburn” would start conversations among its viewers, she added, “I wanted to make something about desire and the relationship we have with the things that we want. Maybe we’re kind of in this permanent state at the moment of wanting, of looking at things that never look back at us because they’re unattainable. And you find that we’re all kind of post-COVID watching and wanting. I’m interested in what that does to all of us, and you can see increasingly the cycle becomes love, obsession, self-loathing, and then hatred of the object. I think the thing that we did with ‘Promising Young Woman’ and what I love to do so much is to take the genre, quite a specific sub-genre, and press down on it until it squeaks.”

 Fennell’s debut feature, of course, was an unexpected hit with academy members, landing five nominations including Best Picture, Best Director for Fennell, and Best Actress for Mulligan. (Fennell won for Best Original Screenplay.) The field this year is certainly larger and stronger than it was during the 2021 Oscars race, so “Saltburn” remains on the outside of a number of categories right now. But expect the film and its actors and writer-director to rise in the odds as it gets closer to its November release date.

“Saltburn” will debut in limited release on November 17 before a wide rollout over Thanksgiving weekend.

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