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The ticklish, sexy wickedness of 'Saltburn'

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Mark Simpson
Jan 17, 2024
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Not many films manage to reinvent sex, or even just find fresh, powerful ways of representing it, especially in our jaded, online, perma-gaped age.

(Or is that just me?)

And if you’d told me last year that it would be a British film – one set moreover in a Downton-esque country pile – that would achieve these things in 2024, I would have laughed in your …

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