Chick Flick?
Posted on 08/29/2025 1:58:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Luca Guadagnino’s latest film, Amazon MGM Studios’ ‘After the Hunt,’ stars Roberts alongside Andrew Garfield, Ayo Edebiri, Chloë Sevigny and Michael Stuhlbarg.
To give you a sense of the knotty conflicts, character dynamics and power struggles at play in Luca Guadagnino’s new film After the Hunt, during the film’s official Venice Film Festival press conference, Julia Roberts got asked out of the gate to offer her thoughts on whether the film undermines the feminist struggle.
“Not to be disagreeable because it’s not in my nature,” Roberts said with a grin as she defended the movie by countering that it’s only meant to inspire debate. “There’s a lot of old arguments that get rejuvenated in this movie in a way that does create conversation. The best part of your question is you talking about how you all came out of the theater talking about [the film], and that’s how we wanted it to feel — that everybody comes out with all these different feelings, emotions and points of views. You realize what you believe in strongly and what your convictions are because we stir it all up for you. So, you’re welcome.”
After the Hunt is described as psychological drama about college professor Alma Imhoff (Roberts) who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when star student Maggie (Ayo Edebiri) accuses her colleague Hank (Andrew Garfield) of assault. As events unfold, a dark secret from the professor’s past threatens to be revealed. Guadagnino directed from a script by Nora Garrett.
Actually, the pointed question was the second of the session, and it followed a journalist asking Roberts and Edebiri what was so attractive about playing such “troubled women.”
“Trouble is where the juicy stuff is. All that great complexity that Nora wrote for all the characters is what assembled this kind of a group,” Roberts responded, gesturing to the press conference panel that hosted Guadagnino, Edebiri, Garfield, Garrett, Chloë Sevigny and Michael Stuhlbarg. “It’s like dominoes of conflict, once one falls, then suddenly everywhere you turn, there’s some new piece of conflict and challenge. That’s what makes it worth getting up and going to work in the morning.”
As for Edebiri, she called the gig “a dream” because of the challenges it presented. “That’s how you grow,” she added. “That’s the type of movie I enjoy watching.”
Roberts and Edebiri in After the Hunt. Yannis Drakoulidis, Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios Roberts, who clearly enjoyed her time with Guadagnino as evidenced by her sartorial choice when arriving in Venice, said working on After the Hunt reminded her of Bruce Beresford’s Tender Mercies. The 1982 drama follows a broken-down, middle-aged country singer as he gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter and tries to put his troubled life back together.
“I just thought there was something magical about the idea that a kind of camera just landed in a place and happened to document what was going on where it landed. That’s how I feel about this movie,” Roberts explained. “We’re not making statements. We are portraying these people in this moment in time, and the camera has fallen from the sky in this particular moment and and captures all this. That’s what is sort of incredible about it.”
Roberts continued: “It’s not so much that we’re making a statement. We’re just sharing these lives for this moment, and then we want everyone to go away and talk to each other. That, to me, is the most exciting bit because we’re kind of losing the art of conversation in humanity right now. If making this movie does anything, getting everybody to talk to each other is the most exciting thing that I feel we could accomplish.”
Conversations will surely be in full effect when After the Hunt team has its world premiere Friday evening here on the Lido inside Sala Grande. The 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival runs Aug. 27-Sept. 6.
Amazon MGM Studios releases After the Hunt on Oct. 17.
Boring play ?
People don’t have conversations.
People don’t read books.
Anything that can help bring back the old days is a good thing.
We haven’t lost the art of anything. We don’t talk because there are too many things not safe to talk about anymore.
For your point, yes. For another, more and more people exist I have no desire to talk to, for one or more reasons.
Uh huh.
So we’re back to
” we need to have a conversation”
are we ?
Uhhhh,,,HELL NO .
THERE IS NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT LADY.
the left played their cards , they played their hands, they freaking lost
Time to pay up.
We are returning to moral sanity
you’re an entertainer, or supposed to be anyway,, stick to that
we are so done taking life lessons from you reprobate regressive .
Get
A
Clue.
One of the last people I’d want to have a conversation with is Julia.
This homewrecker is “Past it”, as the Brits say.
You realize what you believe in strongly and what your convictions are because we stir it all up for you.
In other words a Marxist shit stiring movie eh ?
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So, you’re welcome.”
Gawd what a delusional ego.
Isn’t she the one who said “Republican” is between “Reptile” and “Repugnant”?
Who cares what fish face has to say about anything.
Yes I remember it well. Back in the W years at some dim pow wow.
I guilty as hell. I’m at the point where I have zero tolerance for librats and grow weary after of while of hearing gripes I agree with. My dog and garden are my favorite company. Sad I know.
Roberts was a huge trash talker for a long time. One of the first to bring the hate to mainstream. Eff her!
I wouldn’t watch Mona Lisa Smile (2003) in which a male critic said “A number of scenes have Roberts silent and watching a young woman, apparently reveling in how superior females are to all males.”
Roberts has clauses in her contracts to prevent any scenes of nudity including any showing any part of her breasts including the sides.
The actor Hugh Grant said he took a peek down her dress between scenes and said “There’s nothing much to see.” And he said she had adhesive patches over them just in case.
I think I’d want to know the plot of the movie before I condemned what she says about it...
Julie Roberts is box office poison. This project is dead. Recall her last acting job where she was telling females to vote for Kamala and lie to their husbands. Roberts is Jane Fonda and wishes she can sit on an anti aircraft gun and shoot down Trump. She’s just the worst.
--Bob Dylan
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