#julia-roberts

#julia-roberts

After the Hunt: Luca Guadagnino's he/said, she/said, they/said provocation knocks high-minded institutions off lofty pedestals but it spends nonstop time reveling in showing humanity at its worst. It's a movie that aims to make you angry, and it does it so well you all but wonder, in the end, if it has anything new to say. First-time screenwriter Nora Garrett assembles a viper's nest of academics and one star student, but no one is likable.

Here, though, Roberts is no crusader for justice; she's a woman defined by emotional guardedness and moral ambivalence. She plays Alma Imhoff, a philosophy professor at Yale. Alma is brilliant, respected and more than a little aloof, but she does have her favorites, including a prized Ph.D. student, Maggie, played by Ayo Edebiri, from The Bear. Alma is also close friends with a younger male professor, Hank, played by Andrew Garfield.

If there is a truth that holds firm beneath the wickedly slippery surfaces of Luca Guadagnino's movies, it's that presentation counts. No sartorial decision is made lightly, and no design element is arrived at by accident. The opening titles of his new drama, "After the Hunt," should have you on high alert. They're elegantly rendered in what looks to be Windsor Light Condensed, widely recognizable as Woody Allen's onscreen typeface of choice.