Overview
- Press and critics’ social media reactions describe a visually sumptuous, emotionally charged film that many call “very horny,” repeatedly praising Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi’s on-screen chemistry.
- Charli XCX’s songs earn prominent praise alongside Anthony Willis’s score, with early viewers calling the music a major part of the film’s impact.
- The Paris stop of the press tour spotlighted Robbie’s Victorian-inspired method dressing, including a custom red Chanel gown that extended the film’s gothic aesthetic.
- Robbie characterizes the project as an interpretation rather than a strict adaptation and says trusted collaboration with Elordi allowed them to “try anything” on set.
- Robbie recounts Emerald Fennell installing dressing-room “shrines” for the leads, and Elordi says he sustained a second-degree burn during production; Warner Bros. opens the film in theaters on Feb. 13.