Saltburn , the second film from Promising Young Woman director Emerald Fennell, is causing a lot of discourse, and it seems that she’s embracing the fact that people are talking about it regardless. Fennell was in Savannah this week as the film bowed at SCAD’s Savannah Film Festival on its way to its fall release date from Amazon MGM Studios. The filmmaker was also honored by the festival this year with the Spotlight Director Award. Described as a “beautifully wicked tale of privilege and desire,” the film stars Barry Keoghan as an Oxford University student struggling to fit in. Soon, he “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.” The film also stars Archie Madekwe, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver and Carey Mulligan. “About seven or eight years ago, a young man came to me, in my mind, and he said, ‘I wasn’t in...
