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‘After The Hunt’

Luca Guadagnino’s After The Hunt is to get its North American premiere as the opening night film at this year’s New York Film Festival (NYFF) on September 26. 

Presented by Film at Lincoln Center, the 63rd edition of NYFF will run from September 26 to October 13. After The Hunt will screen at Alice Tully Hall with Guadagnino and members of the film’s cast in attendance. 

Guadagnino’s much anticipated drama – just announced to screen out of competition at next month’s Venice festival – stars Julia Roberts as an emotionally chilly Yale professor whose life is thrown into chaos when her protégée (played by Ayo Edebiri) accuses a longtime colleague and friend (Andrew Garfield) of sexual assault. 

Scripted by Nora Garrett, the film is an Amazon MGM Studios release. 

Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name, Bones And All and Queer have all screened at NYFF in recent years, the latter getting its US premiere as the Spotlight Gala at last year’s festival. 

Guadagnino commented: “I have always found the New York Film Festival to be an arbiter of global cinema. For over 60 years it has been a festival that makes audiences open their minds and hearts to the most daring and compelling global cinema from both established and emerging filmmakers. To be invited to open the 63rd edition is a tremendous responsibility and honour. I, alongside the incredible cast and crew and our companions at Amazon MGM Studios who made After the Hunt possible, am elated and thrilled to bring to New York our tale of morality and power. My most heartfelt thanks to Dennis Lim and the singular NYFF team.” 

Dennis Lim, artistic director of NYFF and chair of the event’s main slate selection committee, added: “We are excited to open this year’s festival with Luca Guadagnino’s latest, which confirms his status as one of the most versatile risk-takers working today. Brilliantly acted and crafted, After the Hunt is something rare in contemporary cinema: a complex, grown-up movie with a lot on its mind that also happens to be a deeply satisfying piece of entertainment.”

 

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