Saltburn (2023) review

Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan), a new student at Oxford University, doesn't have any friends but becomes immediately obsessed with Big Man on Campus Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi) and tries to get into his good graces by helping him with a bicycle problem and sharing with him sad stories about his personal life (he claims his father recently passed away), so Felix invites Oliver to stay with him at his family's gigantic estate - while there, Oliver seduces Felix's sister Venetia (Alison Oliver) and cousin Farleigh (Archie Madekwe) and is revealed to be a huge fibber.  Writer-director Fennell's clearly infatuated with her own writing (scenes just sort of linger on and don't seem to go anywhere), she's committed to creating the most odious characters possible and the "point" of it seems to be that the wealthy are detached from the rest of society and can't relate to the middle-class ... which is self-explanatory.  Those gripes aside, she does try to "spice it up" with some raw sexuality (slurping semen from a bathtub, cunnilingus, humping a still-fresh grave) ... and then there's the hilarious conclusion where Oliver dances in his birthday suit to Sophie Ellis-Bextor's "Murder on the Dancefloor" (which I suspect was influenced by the last scene in Claire Denis' Beau Travail): DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down.