Like grief, nostalgia can sometimes hit you when you’re not expecting it. While watching the movie Saltburn, in which the two leads meet at university, I was transported back to my own student days. That dreamy intensity of new friendships and crushes. Everyone piling into the pub on a whim and then all back to someone’s house to talk nonsense until dawn. The sun streaming in through the window the next day to gently wake you – and the realisation that you have a languorously empty day ahead to nurse your hangover. The movie’s time and place – Oxford, 2006 – doesn’t correspond to my own university experience, but those feelings – being free, spontaneous, technically being an adult but not yet having to behave like one – sent me…
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Red UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2024