#academic-politics

#academic-politics

This trio are the key pieces in Guadagnino's cinematic game of chess. The evening is one of fine wine, indoor smoking, and philosophical ponderings, including a student suggesting that Alma's potential promotion to academic tenure would not be due to her extensive career, but rather because she ticks the so-called diversity box of being a woman. The declaration sets the tone for the perspective-shifting story of blurred lines and accusations that is to come.

From her ripped-from-the-pages-of- Architecture Digest home right down to her Loewe loafers, you immediately glean a certain girlboss-ery that invites easy admirers and even easier adversaries. She champions women-or so we're told until her favorite student, Maggie Price (Ayo Edebiri, who is sadly no match for Roberts), claims that Imhoff's colleague and friend, Hank Gibson (Andrew Garfield), sexually assaulted her after the pair left a gathering at her home.