By Crispian Balmer

VENICE (Reuters) -U.S. actor Julia Roberts delves into the rarefied world of academia in her latest film “After the Hunt”, denying that its ambiguous handling of a campus sexual assault allegation was politically incorrect.

Directed by Italy’s Luca Guadagnino and also starring Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield, the movie is premiering on Friday at the Venice Film Festival, bringing Roberts to the Lido’s famed red carpet for the first time in her career.

Roberts plays Alma Olsson, a Yale philosophy professor whose life is upended when her longtime friend and colleague is accused by one of her favourite students of sexual assault.

The drama probes how supposedly liberal academics wrestle with questions of loyalty, power and identity when confronted with generational faul

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