MUBI have released the trailer for the dark satirical thriller Rosebush Pruning.

From queer Brazilian auteur Karim Aïnouz (Motel Destino) and Yorgos Lanthimos’ screenwriting partner Efthimis Filippou (The Lobster), Rosebush Pruning is a loose remake of the 1965 Italian satire Fists in the Pocket, I Pugni in tasca, in which a young man plots the murders of his dysfunctional family members. 

With an elegant Pamela Anderson haunting the narrative after she was supposedly savaged by wolves, the star-studded cast, mostly playing the depraved upper class, includes Callum Turner, Elle Fanning, Riley Keough, Jamie Bell, Lukas Gage, Tracy Letts, and Elena Anaya.

Set in a lavish villa under the Spanish sun, the kinetic trailer promises sex and violence galore. “Blood is not only a thing that can turn you on, but also something that can set you free,” says Callum Turner’s protagonist, an uber-rich elite who, like Lou Castel’s character in Fists in the Pocket, schemes to kill his family.

The film is the next in a wave of satires of the ultra-rich, such as Triangle of Sadness, Saltburn, The Menu, The White Lotus, and Parasite. The Glen Powell vehicle How to Make a Killing, which is currently in theatres, also follows a young man who decides to kill his affluent family, albeit with the motivation of inheriting the family fortune. With Rosebush Pruning centring on a disaffected, “lazy” group so rich that they don’t have to work, the homicidal impulses of Turner’s character will explore a different satirical spin.

Rosebush Pruning premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and hits German theatres April 23rd. News on international releases is coming soon. Watch the trailer below.