“There has to be an element of revulsion,” says Emerald Fennell of her sophomore film about desire and obsession, starring Barry Keoghan.
The British writer-director who made her feature directorial debut with 2020’sknows a thing or two about making an audience feel uncomfortable, and she’ll ratchet that up a notch with her upcoming film,a darkly comedic drama centered on a group of wealthy Oxford students who escape to a lush estate for the summer.
“My favorite thing in general is sympathy for the devil,” says Fennell, who won the original-screenplay Oscar forin 2021. “The sorts of people that we can’t stand, the sorts of people who are abhorrent—if we can love them, if we can fall in love with these people, if we can understand why this is so alluring, in spite of its palpable cruelty and unfairness and sort of strangeness, if we all want to be there too, I think that’s just such an interesting dynamic.
Born and raised in London, Fennell is very familiar with the British gothic tradition of the country-house-set book or film. As a fan of novels likeFennell had long been thinking about creating her own film set in this world, centered on an individual reminiscing about a period of time that changed their life. “It’s always fun to play in a genre that feels well worn, that we’re all familiar with,” says Fennell.
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