“Not everything is supposed to make you comfortable.”

This line is whispered by Julia Roberts in After the Hunt —but it easily could have been said by filmmaker Luca Guadagnino. The Italian auteur has never shied away from unsettling storytelling: cannibalistic romances ( Bones and All ), sweaty love triangles ( Challengers ), and an age-gap gay love story ( Call Me by Your Name ).

For his latest film, he’s bringing that discomfort to the hallowed halls of Yale. Guadagnino’s twisty psychological thriller After the Hunt is centered on power and privilege, truth and secrets, and ambition and disgrace. It grapples with timely contradictions, and the things that people think but are too afraid to express.

“For me, our role as storytellers, filmmakers, or artists, must alwa

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