Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt” will open the 63rd New York Movie Pageant, Movie at Lincoln Heart introduced Wednesday.
“After the Hunt” will first premiere on the Venice Movie Pageant, however on Sept. 26, it should kick off the New York Movie Pageant. An Amazon MGM Studios launch due out this fall, it stars Julia Roberts as a Yale philosophy professor whose comfy life is examined after her protege (Ayo Edebiri) accuses the professor’s longtime colleague (Andrew Garfield) of sexual assault.
Dennis Lim, creative director of the pageant, mentioned Guadagnino’s movie “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,” Lim mentioned in an announcement.
Guadagnino will return to the pageant that final yr hosted his William S. Burroughs adaptation “Queer,” and that additionally chosen his 2017 movie “Call Me by Your Name.”
“I have always found the New York Film Festival to be an arbiter of global cinema,” mentioned Guadagnino. “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.”
The New York Movie Pageant runs Sept. 26 by way of Oct. 13.
