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#MeToo campus thriller After the Hunt is provocation for provocation’s sake | Luca Guadagnino

#MeToo campus thriller After the Hunt is provocation for provocation’s sake | Luca Guadagnino

In theory, After the Hunt, director Luca Guadagnino’s would-be psychological thriller tracing the fallout of a sexual-assault accusation at a cosseted Ivy League campus, hinges on a single early scene: Alma, the aloof and alluring philosophy professor made icily incandescent by Julia Roberts, arrives home to find Maggie, her doctoral student protege played by ascendant star Ayo Edebiri, waiting for …

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