It is surely no coincidence that the credits for Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt are rendered in white Windsor Light Condensed letters over a black background, a.k.a. the “Woody Allen font,” while soft jazz music plays on the soundtrack. This is how Allen’s credits have looked for decades; even the way the cast and crew’s names have been grouped and presented here is distinctly Allenesque, making the allusion clearer. Is it an in-joke? A provocation? Guadagnino’s film seems to have been designed in a lab to tweak all our various sensitivities around cancel culture, so it really could be anything.
Or maybe the font is just denoting the cloistered lives of the people at this film’s center. There aren’t many characters in this movie who aren’t affiliated with Yale, certainly no major ones