Why would this charismatic young British actress want to become cinemas doyenne of dark?
And her co-producer is Margot Robbie, the effervescent Barbie who made the world blink pink.
Saltburnis steamy, sexy and diabolically obscure.

Emerald Fennell, and Barry Keoghan in ‘Saltburn’Getty/Everett
Mulligan even intrudes briefly as a crazed, flame-haired boozer.
Is it intended as a ferocious send-up of British inherited wealth?
But Fennell, like Gerwig, has clearly made shrewd use of the career opportunities afforded her.

The success ofPromising Young Womanearned a coveted Telluride slot forSaltburn.
Gerwig, meanwhile, honed her talents through the mumblecore subculture of improvised dialogue and handheld cameras.
She co-wroteGreenburgwith her writer-director mate Noah Baumbach.