Netflix has confirmed the release date for the project it filmed in Oxford last year, My Oxford Year. Adapted from Julia Whelan’s book of the same name, the film will be released on 1st August.
My Oxford Year stars Sofia Carson as an American visiting student studying English Literature. Inevitably, Anna’s “Oxford Year” does not follow the familiar rhythm of tutorials, Bridge, and hall dinner – instead, it is interrupted by a passionate fling with her poetry tutor, Jamie Davenport, played by Corey Mylchreest. Mylchreest is no stranger to a Netflix success, having starred as George III in Queen Charlotte; A Bridgerton Story (2023).
Filming took place in the city centre last September, at a similar time to the University’s open days. As a result, despite avoiding term-time, many students spotted camera crews near the Bridge of Sighs, the Radcliffe Camera, and Magdalen Bridge.
Scenes were also shot at slightly less orthodox locations. Toby Gawthorne and Amber Masson, both students at Brasenose College, ended up meeting Mylchreest outside Hassan’s. “We sat down on a bench right next to the shot,” Gawthorne told Cherwell, “and that’s when, of all people, Corey came and sat down with his kebab next to us”. He asked them “whether the kebab van in the scene was one people actually went to”. Anyone who has walked down Broad Street after midnight can certainly answer that. According to Masson and Gawthorne, “he, and the rest of the crew… were absolutely lovely.”
This will be the first major film set in Oxford since Saltburn in 2023. My Oxford Year paints a slightly different picture: as of writing, the official stills released by Netflix seem to promise an Oxford full of improbable meet-cutes, pithy yearning across oak-panelled rooms, and sub-fusc.
