Out of competition “After the Hunt arrives: after hunting”, which brings the diva for the first time to the Festival: “Well that the film is discussed: it is the greatest success”
It is the big day of Julia Robertsat the first time at the Venice Film Festival. She smiles with his smile there, shiny and shrewd. And he replies with ironic jokes to the press: “I love the questions so complex early in the morning” (or 11.30 at Lido).
After a few minutes he needs to drink and stop the time for a moment, inviting with sympathy the rest of the cast to open their can of water all at the same time, to avoid subsequent noises. “Also on the set it was always the case,” jokes Andrew Garfield.
In Venice 82 he reveals himself After the Hunt: after huntingthe new film by Luca Guadagnino which adds further shining petals to the Margherita of Hollywood Divi to his court. For the same will of the Sicilian filmmaker and the Amazon MGM Studios The feature film is out of competition. The mood of the insiders was quite controversial after the first projection in the Darsena room. The most frequent question: what it wants to talk about After the Hunt: after hunting? What is the point?
In the light of Julia Roberts, a Torvo film opposed, crossed by a soundtrack that wants to press nervously on the voltage button, with musical whales that cause more discomfort than suspense. The first sequences are accompanied by a harassing ticking, probably as a prelude to a disturbing affair that is about to explode: another narrative tricks that goes a little.
Between high academic speeches and an ambiguous emotional and professional relationships, After the Hunt: after hunting It is a composite psychological thriller that thriller basically is not: its elusive characters rather than arousing disturbance and dilemmas bored.
But Ayo Edibirithe actress launched by the TV series The Bearsays: «There is a great complexity in all the characters. It is the type of movie that I like to watch and concern several times because the point of view I had at the beginning changes when I continue to look at it ». Perhaps at a second vision we will appreciate more After the Hunt: after hunting?
Ex Pretty Woman He invites to comparison: «In our society we are losing the art of conversation. If the Peron discuss among them our film I think it is the greatest success ».
Everything opens in the well -awarded living room of a talented and ambitious Yale philosophy professor, Alma Imhoff: here is Julia Roberts, in suit with Nivei pants, while it entertains high conversations with her high friends. Among the guests there is the colleague and dear friend Hank Gibson (Garfield), who enjoys to playing the guests playfully with contrasts and arrows. There is also the Punta student of Alma, Maggie (Edibiri), the face of the new generations strongly sensitive to inclusion and gender equality, against the patriarchal structures persistent in society. And then, sly like a sleeping lion ready to give a paw, there is Alma’s loyal husband, Frederik (Michael Stuhlbarg), who, with his reassuring bum, loves to cook and listen to John Adams at full volume: he is the most beautiful character.
Immediately after this lovable (and tedious) convivial meeting, an event that unbits relationships, careers, aspirations happens. A sex harassmentPerhaps. Everyone – including spectator – will wonder what the truth is really.
The enigmatic script, signed by Nora Garrettremember Doubt2008 film with Philip Seymour Hoffman priest on which horrible suspicions fall, but never gets insinuating themselves so penetrating in involvement and consciences.
“Assembling this group Nora has put complexity in every character and this is the tastiest part,” observed Julia Roberts. «It’s like a domino game: when one of the pieces falls, new conflicts and challenges emerge everywhere. This is what makes it worth going to work in the morning ».
Between speeches on the ethics of virtue and flirting with one’s pain, the most interesting topic squeeze from After the Hunt: after hunting is the Generational feminist gap.
“The thing I love about the film is that we look at the characters through their truth and there is no more important truth than the other,” said Guadagnino, who had led to competition last year Queer With Daniel Craig, in 2022 Bones and All With Timothée Chalamet and in 2015 A Bigger Splash With Tilda Swinton. «The script touched me deeply. Is one conversation on power that I had already started with myself: what do we want when we seek power? Why do we fight to have it and remove it from others? I always wonder “What do you want?” And I answer that I want tranquility. So, when I see in others the ambition at the expense of the neighbor, I find it interesting. It is like a damnation. And it’s nice to have the opportunity to explore this blind research ».
After the Hunt: after hunting The cinema will be released October 16th Distributed by Eagle Pictures.
If for Julia Roberts it is the first time at the Venice Film Festival, however it is not the first time in Venice. «I have already worked here and I was lucky enough to spend time in Venice in the past: it’s a magical city, it’s one of the most inexplicable places in the world. It’s incredible. Even simply coming here this morning I said to myself “Look where we are, it’s a dream” ».
