Luca GuadagninoAcademia Cancel-Culture Thriller ”After the hunt“(Amazon/MGM Studios) is the Italian filmmaker’s latest work to premiere on Venice Film Festival. It plays Julia Roberts as a Yale philosophy professor, who discovers in the midst of an accusation of sexual abuse from her student (Ayo Edebiri) against her colleague (Andrew Garfield).
From a script by the first time function writer Nora GarrettGuadagnino’s third function in three years plays out of the competition in Venice, with the director united by Roberts, Michael Stuhlbarg, Garfield, Edebiri and Chloë Sevigny at Lido. During Friday’s press conference in Palazzo del Casino, the actors tangled with the film’s tagged subjects, which are not only about abuse but also racial relations in the academic world and the ideological gap between generations.
Given the film’s interruption culture violations, it is remarkable and not by mistake that the film’s opening credits are in the style of a Woody Allen movie: in the Windsor font and white text against a black screen, in alphabetical order and acknowledge that alphabetical order. Eagle-Eyed audience will think about the connection between an artist who has become personal non grata in American culture and Roberts as a professor who faces allegations and persecution of his own.
During the press conference on Friday morning, IndieWire Luca asked Guadagnino why these opening credits share an aesthetics with a Woody Allen film. “The crass’s answer would be why not?” “Call me by your name” said the filmmaker. “There is a cannon that I grew up with, and why I started thinking about this movie with my collaborators, in front of the camera and behind the camera we could not stop thinking about” crime and wrongdoing “or” another woman “or even” Hannah and her sisters “and it was an infrastructure for the story that felt like 1981.
He added, “I played with it a few times before this, a couple of times used that kind of graphics and fonts, and I felt that it was also interesting to think of an artist who in a way had some kind of problem with his creature and what is our responsibility to look at an artist we love, like Woody Allen. And on the road, it is a classic.
Roberts said it is “not so much that we make a statement” with the hot button. “We share these lives for this moment and want everyone to talk to each other after … We lose type of conversation in humanity right now, and about doing this movie does everything, it’s to get everyone to talk to each other.
