If the loudly insistent ticking clock in the opening minutes of After the Hunt gets on your nerves, then brace yourself, because you’re about to get clobbered with two-and-a-quarter hours of it. Not just the intermittent clock, but the mind-numbing academia-speak, the hyper-articulate inter-generational savagery and the streams of circuitous talk about thorny ethics, sexual violations and contentious power dynamics. Director Luca Guadagnino and first-time screenwriter Nora Garrett seem convinced this is all very provocative, very now with its hard questions and subjective truths. But frankly it’s very five years ago, which makes it more punishing.

If the loudly insistent ticking clock in the opening minutes of After the Hunt gets on your nerves, then brace yourself, because you’re

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