After the Hunt opens with explicit Woody Allen visual cues and alphabetical credits, immediately signaling a provocative stance toward sexual-abuse rhetoric. The film centers on a Yale-set scandal in which a philosophy professor unravels after a student accuses a colleague of sexual assault; the cast includes Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield. Luca Guadagnino's direction brings inventiveness and formal daring, but Nora Garrett's first feature screenplay reduces characters to broad mouthpieces and leans toward overintellectualization. The film probes generational tensions between Gen Z and pre-woke Gen X yet remains oddly chaste and less dangerous than its opening suggests.
You know you're in for an encounter with somebody who wants to start shit when the opening frames of Luca Guadagnino's " After the Hunt," a thriller about a sexual assault scandal that rocks an intellectual community, are styled in the tradition of none other than Woody Allen: white Windsor typeface against a black backdrop, the cast including Julia Roberts and Ayo Edebiri in alphabetical order, and the credits acknowledging said alphabetical order.
It's an intriguing provocation from the get-go that Guadagnino would want to announce his new film by calling back to Allen, an artist who has become the poster figure for sexual abuse scandals. That Guadagnino would want to interrogate the rhetoric of how alleged abuse is positioned at all via Allen's signature is a sit-up-in-your-seat creative choice that nearly hijacks the first moments of this Yale-set drama,
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