After The Hunt is a 2025 film directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by Nora Garrett. It stars Julia Roberts as Alma Imhoff, a philosophy professor at Yale on the verge of tenure. Ayo Edebiri plays Maggie, a star student of Alma's and Andrew Garfield as Hank, a fellow professor also on the verge of tenure. Alma is caught between the two when Maggie confides in Alma that Hank sexually assaulted her after a party one night. Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloe Sevigny star in supporting roles as Alma's husband Frederik and a school doctor/therapist respectively.

Timestamps

• (01:36 ) Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
• (17:43 ) The Devils
• (31:55 ) The Piano Teacher
• (45:57 ) After the Hunt discussion
• (1:32:49 ) After the Hunt Spoilers
• (1:55:21 ) Next Time!

Works Cited

• After the Hunt (2025, Luca Guadagnino)
• "All These Things That I've Done" (The Killers, 2004)
• Call Me by Your Name (2017, Luca Guadagnino)
• The Devils (1971, Ken Russell)
• Elle (2016, Paul Verhoeven)
• Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008, Nathan Frankowski)
• Freddie deBoer's letterboxd review of After the Hunt
• Hell on Earth: The Desecration and Resurrection of 'The Devils' (2002, Paul Joyce)
• Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
• Opus (2025, Mark Anthony Green)
• The Piano Teacher (2001, Michael Haneke)
• Possession (1981, Andrzej Żuławski) 
• Southland Tales (2006, Richard Kelly)
• Tár (2022, Todd Field)

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