Dial down the Oscar buzz. Even a stellar cast giving it full welly can’t save Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt from choking on its own self-importance. It’s actually impressive that the director behind films as sexy, fun and freaky as Call Me By Your Name, Challengers, and Bones and All could waste all this talent on this slog of a movie.
After the Hunt is a college campus drama from a bygone era, when discussions about race, class and rape were the stuff of lurid Rolling Stone articles. “It happened at Yale” the title card pompously informs us, although most Ivy Leagues these days are more concerned with dodging Donald Trump’s ire than intergenerational warfare between Boomer staff and Zoomer students.
