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France 24
18 hours ago
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- France 24
Julia Roberts, Jude Law to feature at star-packed Venice Film Festival
Roberts is one of many A-listers set to appear at the increasingly influential Venice film extravaganza from late August for the premiere of her latest movie, the Amazon-produced "After the Hunt". Directed by Italy's Luca Guadagnino, a Venice regular, it tells the story of a sexual assault case at a prestigious American university and will run outside the main film competition, according to festival director Alberto Barbera. "It is the first time that Julia Roberts will walk the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival so we're very happy to have her," Barbera told reporters in a presentation of the August 27-September 9 line up. The main competition category, where 21 features will vie for the prestigious Golden Lion for best film, includes a host of star-packed productions including "The Wizard of the Kremlin" by Olivier Assayas. The movie is an adaptation by French director Assayas of a best-selling book about Putin's rise to power, featuring British actor Law as the Kremlin strongman. Law told Deadline in January that the role was "an Everest to climb", adding that he was "looking up thinking, 'Oh Christ'." Other high-profile, in-competition movies selected by the festival include the latest thriller from American Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow titled "A House of Dynamite" and "Father Mother Sister Brother" by Jim Jarmusch, starring Adam Driver and Cate Blanchett. Benny Safdie's film about a wrestling champion "The Smashing Machine" has Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in the lead role alongside Emily Blunt, who delivers a "memorable performance" as his wife, according to Barbera. A much-discussed new interpretation of "Frankenstein" by Guillermo del Toro will also be in the running for prizes, with Barbera saying that producer Netflix "has not skimped on the means made available to del Toro's imagination". American director Noah Baumbach returns with "Jay Kelly", a comedy co-written with his wife Greta Gerwig, featuring an A-list cast that includes George Clooney playing an actor with an identity crisis. -- Feature on Gaza -- Alongside five Italian films, a handful of arthouse productions as well as the Hollywood blockbusters, festival organisers have also selected a feature about the war in Gaza in what is the most overtly political offering in the main competition. "The Voice of Hind Rajab", by Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania, reconstructs the death of six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab, who was killed last year by Israeli forces. She and several relatives were fleeing an Israeli offensive in Gaza City in January 2024 when their car came under attack. In a case that led to international outrage, Rajab could be heard pleading for help in a desperate phone call to rescuers from the Red Crescent after she was left as the sole survivor in the badly damaged vehicle. She and two Red Crescent workers who went to find her were later found dead. Barbera said it was one of the films that "will have the biggest impact on audiences and critics, and I hope there will be no controversies". "I'm moved when I think of the movie," he said, adding that Ben Hania had reproduced Rajab's phone calls in her film. Around 370 actors and directors signed an open letter during the Cannes film festival in May saying they were "ashamed" of their industry's "passivity" about the war in Gaza, including Cannes jury president Juliette Binoche. Herzog honoured Other highlights in Venice will include the return of American director Gus Van Sant who is set to show his first movie since 2018, "Dead Man's Wire", out of competition. Among the documentaries, German director Werner Herzog will project his latest film, "Ghost Elephants", about "a mysterious herd of ghost elephants in the jungles of Angola," according to Barbera. Herzog will be presented with a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the festival. Sofia Coppola will premiere a documentary about her friend and fashion designer Marc Jacobs, while fellow American directors Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus have persuaded veteran US journalist Seymour Hersh to collaborate for a film about him called "Cover Up". The head of the jury for the main competition at the 82nd edition of the festival will be US film director Alexander Payne who is best known for films such as "Sideways", "The Descendants" and "About Schmidt".
The Hindu
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
‘After The Hunt' trailer: Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield star in Luca Guadagnino's psychological thriller
Amazon MGM Studios has released the official trailer for After The Hunt, a psychological thriller directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Julia Roberts as a university professor forced to confront the buried truths of her past. Roberts plays Alma Olsson, a respected academic whose professional world begins to unravel when a student, Maggie Price (Ayo Edebiri), confides that fellow professor Henrik Gibson (Andrew Garfield) has behaved inappropriately. What begins as an academic misconduct case soon morphs into something far more personal for Alma. After The Hunt is written by Nora Garrett and produced by Guadagnino alongside Brian Grazer, Jeb Brody, and Allan Mandelbaum. Karen Lunder, Justin Wilkes, Alice Dawson, and Garrett serve as executive producers. The cast also includes Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny. The film reunites Guadagnino with Amazon MGM Studios after 2024's Challengers. His past works include Call Me by Your Name, Suspiria, Bones and All, and last year'sQueer. After The Hunt is set to hit theatres in October
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Generations Clash Over #MeToo in Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt
Gen X icon Julia Roberts has to reckon with Gen Z standards around sex and safety in the provocatove trailer for After the Hunt, the latest film from filmmaker Luca Guadagnino. The trailer spells out its ambition to explore different generations' complicated views around #MeToo in an opening scene in which millennial actor Andrew Garfield's character, Frederick, confronts the younger Maggie, played by Gen Z star Ayo Edebiri. "All your generation you're just scared of saying the wrong thing," he complains. "When did offending someone become the preeminent cardinal sin?" Related Headlines 12 Shameless '80s Comedies That Don't Care If You're Offended 10 Movie Sex Scenes Someone Should Have Stopped 12 Big Bang Theory Castmates: Where Are They Now? "Maybe it's around the same time your generation started making sweeping generalizations about ours?" she responds. But the cocktail party chatter goes down a darker corridor when Edebiri's character goes to the mentor, Alma, played by Julia Roberts. It quickly becomes apparent that Alma doesn't take Maggie's accusation as seriously as Maggie believes she should, and things escalate. Then Frederick comes forward with a familiar defense — a claim that Maggie is just weaponizing an accusation of misconduct to get what she wants. "I caught Maggie cheating," he tells Alma. "I told her I suspected she plagiarized. And then the next day — utter fabrication." We also learn that Anna has secrets of her own. At one point, one of Alma's colleagues, played by another Gen X icon, Chloe Sevigngy, makes a startling admission that may sound familiar to Gen Xers and Baby Boomers who endured harassment and worse prior to the #MeToo movement: "I believe her. But whatever happened to stuffing everything down like the rest of us?" More After the Hunt Details It's a blunt, provocative setup, one to which audiences will no doubt bring their own pre-existing notions. The film seems very much in line with the prolific Guadagnino's string of other provocative films, including Call Me By Your Name and Challengers. The film's title also feels like a dare — does the hunt refer to a predator's hunt for victims? Or is it a reference the claims by some people snared by #MeToo that they were caught in a witch hunt? The trailer, notably, does not seem to take a side. The film was shot by cinematographer Malik Hassan Sayeed, who used 35mm film and is returning to feature films after 25 years. He is known for films including films such as Spike Lee's Clockers (1995) and He Got Game (1998). The score is from the ever-reliable Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. The film, written by Nora Garrett, arrives in theaters in New York and Los Angeles October 10 and expands October 17 from Amazon MGM Studios. Main image: Julia Roberts in After the Hunt. Amazon MGM Studios. Related Headlines 12 Shameless '80s Comedies That Don't Care If You're Offended 10 Movie Sex Scenes Someone Should Have Stopped 12 Big Bang Theory Castmates: Where Are They Now? Solve the daily Crossword
Geek Tyrant
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
AFTER THE HUNT Trailer Sees Julia Roberts Face a Shattering #MeToo Scandal with Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri — GeekTyrant
Luca Guadagnino ( Call Me by Your Name, Challengers ) is back, and this time he's diving straight into the chaos of power, morality, and the #MeToo era with his upcoming psychological drama After the Hunt . The first trailer has been released, and it's tense, layered, and brimming with the kind of unease Guadagnino thrives on. Julia Roberts leads the film as a college professor who finds herself walking a razor's edge between loyalty, integrity, and survival when a scandal threatens to unravel her life. According to the official synopsis, After the Hunt follows a professor who 'finds herself at a personal and professional crossroad when a star student (Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield), threatening to expose a dark secret from her own past.' The trailer wastes no time setting the tone. It opens with Garfield's Hank delivering a barbed line aimed squarely at Gen Z: 'All your generation, you're scared of saying the wrong thing. When did offending someone become the preeminent cardinal sin?' Edebiri's Maggie isn't having it: 'Maybe it's around the same time your generation started making sweeping generalizations about ours?' The footage teases both Hank and Maggie's complicated, and possibly dangerous, fixations on Roberts' character. Everything detonates when Maggie arrives at the professor's home, shaken and accusing Hank of sexual assault. Hank fires back, claiming Maggie has been cheating in class. What begins as a battle of perspectives quickly ignites into a storm of accusations, secrets, and racial and generational fault lines. Guadagnino, known for exploring messy human desires and moral ambiguities, looks to be at his sharpest here, turning the academic world into a battlefield of identity politics, ethics, and raw ambition. The R-rated drama features an impressive supporting cast, including Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny. After The Hunt hits theaters in New York and L.A. on October 10, before expanding nationwide on October 17.
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Luca Guadagnino Savors Crossed Lines and Devours Comfort Zones in ‘After the Hunt' Trailer
The characters in Luca Guadagnino's forthcoming dramatic thriller, Into the Hunt, are obsessed with language —the words that are said, and even more so, the ones left unspoken. Early in the first trailer for the film, Andrew Garfield's overzealous academic Hank pokes at Ayo Edebiri's Maggie, an overachieving student enrolled in a course taught by Julia Roberts' Professor Alma Olsson. 'All your generation, you're scared of saying the wrong thing,' he says. 'When did offending someone become the preeminent cardinal sin?' Maggie readies her rebuttal, suggesting with an edge of snark, 'Maybe it's around the same time your generation started making sweeping generalizations about ours?' Throughout the trailer, the film blurs the lines between what should be completely black and white situations. When Hank's playful academic debates escalate to the point of sexual assault, Maggie confides in Alma, believing she'll take the facts for what they are. But Alma and Hank have a history, and always will, as she tells her husband. More from Rolling Stone How Lionel Boyce and Ayo Edebiri Wrote 'The Bear' Season 4's Standout Episode 'The Bear' Season 4 Finale Leaves Us With Plenty to Chew On 'The Bear' Season 4 Goes Big and Goes Small in Two Very Special Episodes. Both Work When Maggie tells her that Hank 'crossed the line' after a nightcap, Alma responds, 'But what actually happened?' And when Alma confronts Hank, he attempts to spin the narrative as an academic violation. He insists that he caught Maggie cheating. The plagiarism accusation doesn't align with the portrait the professor painted earlier in the trailer of one of her star students, one of brilliance, but not obsession, as her husband would have suggested. 'You tend to choose people because they worship you,' he told her. The turmoil spreads across campus, with looks of pity exchanged alongside expressions of distrust and uncertain suspicion. 'I worked too hard, done too much to get here to let it all be just taken away,' Hank declares through fury. Another figure, Chloë Sevigny's Kim, questions why Maggie spoke up at all, asking, 'I believe her, but whatever happened to stuffing everything down like the rest of us?' All the while, Maggie is perplexed as to how 'a young Black woman can get assaulted and all these white people find a way to make it about themselves.' In theaters Oct. 17, After the Hunt marks Guadagnino's latest film since last year's Challengers and Queer. Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Best 'Saturday Night Live' Characters of All Time Denzel Washington's Movies Ranked, From Worst to Best 70 Greatest Comedies of the 21st Century Solve the daily Crossword
