Emerald Fennell made her directorial debut with the explosive Promising Young Women in 2021. This year, she’ll be premiering her second film, Saltburn.

Starring Jacob Elordi, Barry Keoghan and Rosamund Pike, the film is set in the mid-2000s and follows an Oxford student who develops an obsession with a wealthy classmate and his family while visiting their estate. As Deadline reported, it’s a dark story about a “grand, aristocratic English family”.

The BFI recently announced that Saltburn will have its international debut at the London Film Festival later this year. “I’m honoured that our film is able to open this year’s BFI London Film Festival,” Fennell said. “It is a festival that inspired me so much growing up, one that I followed excitedly from my bedroom on the other side of London. It feels extra-special that Saltburn, this very British tale of excess, is able to make its international debut at the wonderful BFI.”

Starring: Jacob Elordi, Barry Keoghan, Rosamund Pike, Alison Oliver, Carey Mulligan, Richard E Grant, Archie Madekwe

Release date: London Film Festival premiere on 4 October 2023; in UK cinemas 24 November 2023

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