{"id":184473,"date":"2025-08-29T11:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/184473\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T11:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:49:09","slug":"venice-film-festival-julia-roberts-after-the-hunt-stirs-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/184473\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice Film Festival: Julia Roberts’ \u2018After the Hunt\u2019 stirs debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

VENICE, Italy (AP) \u2014 Julia Roberts and filmmaker Luca Guadagnino faced pointed questions about complicity and undermining the feminist movement at a news conference for \u201cAfter the Hunt\u201d on Friday at the Venice Film Festival.<\/a><\/p>\n

The film, set in the world of higher education where Roberts plays a beloved philosophy professor, revolves around an accusation of misconduct. Her mentee, played by Ayo Edebiri,<\/a> accuses her friend and colleague, played by Andrew Garfield, of crossing the line. Nora Garrett\u2019s screenplay does not offer easy or simple resolutions.<\/p>\n

One reporter asked Roberts if she thought the film undermines the feminist movement and progress of the #MeToo movement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t necessarily think it revives an old argument of women being pitted against one another,\u201d Roberts said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the Hunt\u201d screened Thursday night for press and industry before its premiere Friday evening. Though reviews are embargoed until the world premiere begins, it\u2019s already sparking debate around the festival.<\/p>\n

For Roberts, who joked that she loved \u201cthe softball questions early in the morning,\u201d the point is the conversations the film provokes. The tagline on the poster even reads \u201cnot everything is supposed to make you feel comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s how we wanted it to feel,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cEveryone comes out with all these different feelings and emotions and points of views. And you realize what you believe in strongly and what your convictions are because we stir it all up for you. So, you\u2019re welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guadagnino jumped in as well, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s how we see the clash of truths. It\u2019s not about making a manifesto to revive old fashioned values.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roberts added that they\u2019re not making statements with \u201cAfter the Hunt.\u201d Rather, she likes to think of it like a camera dropped out of the sky to capture these characters in this thorny moment where everyone seems to be lying to themselves and to others.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re kind of losing the art of conversation in humanity right now,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cIf making this movie does anything, getting everyone to talk to each other is the most exciting thing we could accomplish.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film, which Amazon MGM Studios will release in North American theaters on Oct. 10, also uses a familiar-looking font for its opening credits: The Windsor-style typeface made famous by Woody Allen<\/a> in some of his most famous films, from \u201cAnnie Hall\u201d to \u201cCrimes and Misdemeanors.\u201d When asked why he chose this, Guadagnino said the crass answer is, \u201cWhy not?\u201d<\/p>\n

Guadagnino did elaborate on this choice, saying that when he and his collaborators were putting \u201cAfter the Hunt\u201d together, they couldn\u2019t stop thinking about how linked it felt to the \u201cgreat oeuvre of Woody Allen\u201d between the years of 1985 and 1991.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt it was an interesting nod to thinking of an artist who has been in a way facing some sort of problems about his being and what is our responsibility of working with an artist we love,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The film is not playing in the main competition at the festival, so it won\u2019t be up for any awards on Sept. 6, but it\u2019s a return to a familiar site for Guadagnino. Last year he brought \u201cQueer,\u201d with Daniel Craig<\/a>, and several years ago had \u201cBones & All,\u201d<\/a> with Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet. His tennis love triangle film \u201cChallengers,\u201d<\/a> with Zendaya, was supposed to open Venice in 2023 but the Hollywood strikes upended much of that year\u2019s festival and it was pulled.<\/a><\/p>\n

Roberts is not a Venice newcomer either, having worked in the city in the past, but this does mark her first time at the festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so magical,\u201d Roberts said of the city, though this trip, she said \u201cI have not done anything outside of work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three days in, the 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival is in full swing with many major premieres to come including Guillermo del Toro\u2019s \u201cFrankenstein,\u201d<\/a> Benny Safdie\u2019s \u201cThe Smashing Machine\u201d and Kathryn Bigelow\u2019s \u201cA House of Dynamite.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

For ongoing coverage of the 2025 Venice Film Festival, visit: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/venice-film-festival<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VENICE, Italy (AP) \u2014 Julia Roberts and filmmaker Luca Guadagnino faced pointed questions about complicity and undermining the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":184474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7565,47632,2122,26382,56034,67398,171,22016,57,58203,6604,6667,75194,47633,53,103695,587,1148,32771,61,67,132,68,30989,75209,107,32773],"class_list":{"0":"post-184473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-metoo","9":"tag-andrew-garfield","10":"tag-arts-and-entertainment","11":"tag-ayo-edebiri","12":"tag-benny-safdie","13":"tag-daniel-craig","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-fairs-and-festivals","16":"tag-general-news","17":"tag-guillermo-del-toro","18":"tag-international-news","19":"tag-julia-roberts","20":"tag-kathryn-bigelow","21":"tag-luca-guadagnino","22":"tag-movies","23":"tag-nora-garrett","24":"tag-north-america","25":"tag-theater","26":"tag-timothee-chalamet","27":"tag-u-s-news","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-us","31":"tag-venice-film-festival","32":"tag-woody-allen","33":"tag-world-news","34":"tag-zendaya"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115111904272898942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}