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Amending one feature behind the other since 2017, when it gained prominence with Call me by your name, Luca Guadagnino Holds over the actress’s debut script Nora Garrett and delivers one thriller up to its latest releases, Rivals and Queerboth from 2024, in After huntingchosen to open the 27th edition of Rio Festivalwhich happens until next October 12th.

In the news, a university professor is involved in an ethical and professional crisis when his best friend accuses another teacher, a longtime friend, of sexual aggression. While conflicts in campus They intensify, from the dissemination of the news and the beginning of an investigation, secrets of the teacher threaten to surface, testing their limits between loyalty, justice and conviction.

After hunting It presents a generational conflict based on a matter that crosses generations becoming increasingly complicated over the years. There are no easy answers to a case of sexual aggression and the feature Gaddagninum It works precisely on this, updating the discussion with new possibilities: the situation is the same – the abuse made possible by a hierarchy of power – but the characters are different.

On the one hand, there is the victim, a young black, lesbian woman, but born in a rich and privileged family, who still would not have the talent or ability to be extraordinary in her academic life, as expected. On the other, a white and heterosexual man, a superpreen in the social chain, but who struggled to gain the professional prominence by which he is recognized. Both tell their stories – and both may be telling the truth.

Without a single version to be considered, the issue ends up falling on Soul imhoff (Julia Roberts, The world after us), the university professor who finds herself in the middle of the conflict between the victim, her best student Maggie Price (AYO EDEBIRI, The bear), and the aggressor, one of his intimate friends, the assistant teacher Hank Gibson (Andrew Garfield, Every time we have).

Progressive when it comes to defending their own rights in a world dominated by men just like your colleague, Soul It proves to be quite conservative when the accusation arises. Faithfully tied to her routine, the teacher hits the maintenance of the status quo “After all, how to be right in an incorrect world?” “Because it seems to fear that your life perfectly built go through the air.”

In the end, without trivializing a delicate and extremely important issue, After hunting If you exempt a verdict on the main conflict, leaving clues in the air that, in the end, a swallow just does not make summer; and focuses your solution in Soul And what led her to take the attitudes she took on the case. Revelation not only shocks but adds a new dramatic perspective to the story, further increasing doubts and reaffirming that the issue can always be more delicate and harmful than we can imagine.

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• Andrew Garfield

• AYO EDEBIRI

• After hunting

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• Rio 2025 Festival

• Julia Roberts

• Luca Guadagnino

• Nora Garrett