Be still our beating hearts, quite frankly.

What are people saying about Saltburn?

Describing the film as part of the “British country house subgenre”, Fennell tells Town & Country that “there’s something so enduring and seductive” about her new thriller.

“The containment, the unattainable beauty, the impossibly opaque rules, the sense of watching and being watched, the fear of being discovered as an interloper – all make a country house such a rich and gothic place to tell a story,” she says.

In a separate interview with Vanity Fair, Fennell adds that she doesn’t shy away from controversial themes, or visceral, sometimes erotic moments that are sure to stick with audiences.

“We are all in this very strange world now, I think, of wanting. We’re just in a perpetual state of desire and need and want,” she says. “Our relationship with the things that we want when we look on Instagram or we look at clothes, at food, whatever it is: ‘I both want it and I’m disgusted with myself for wanting it’… [and] that is literally the kind of gothic tradition, isn’t it? Take Count Dracula: the reason Count Dracula is so frightening is all the women in the book want to fuck him.

“That’s all of our relationship with the things that we want: they have to be kind of a bit scary for them to be interesting.”

When can we watch Saltburn?

Saltburn will be released in cinemas on Friday 17 November before arriving on Prime Video at a later date.

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