Luca Guadagnino, the director who directed Julia Roberts in her latest film, After the hunt (released in Catalonia with the title Witch hunt), has a good way of defining the first moment you meet the actress. She is such a familiar face that it seems like you've known her all your life. Keep Julia Roberts in mind Pretty Woman, Notting Hill either Erin Brockovich, the title that won her her only Oscar, the actress who walks through the door becomes a magnetic star that draws everyone into an orbit around her. Her eyes denote that she has seen it all in the Hollywood industry, and her conversation, which takes place during the promotion of her latest film at the New York Film Festival, is sincere and thoughtful without leaving out a rather heartbreaking irony.

The Italian Luca Guadagnino, director of Call me by your name, has described Witch hunt as one thriller Moral. An exercise in speculative fiction built on a disturbing enigma: what happened between a Yale University philosophy professor (Andrew Garfield, temperamental) and a well-bred African-American student (Ayo Edebiri, chameleonic) who is the partner of a trans person? Was it a consensual encounter or sexual assault? And what does a professor (Julia Roberts, all-rounder) who is the main confidant of the alleged aggressor and the mentor of the complainant have to do with all this? From this extreme situation—which invokes #MeToo, cancel culture, systemic racism, and the struggle of the LGBTI community— Witch hunt X-rays an academic universe divided between professors willing to do anything for a tenured position and students on the warpath against a retrograde model.

If you want to look like a famous person from the 21st century and create a brand image of an eco-responsible person who has left frivolity behind and cares about something more than just their appearance, you only have to do one thing: wear a dress again. Making this decision will open the doors to the media Olympus. If a media outlet detects—which will happen because your team will have told them beforehand...—that you are wearing an outfit you've already worn before, the fashion editors will be incredibly excited, and you might be at the top of the well-dressed list at some festival, or maybe you'll make the headlines on the red carpet.

Armani is now history. With the death of Giorgio Armani, the fashion world bids farewell to one of the greatest names of the 20th century. His house hadn't been at the center of the creative storm for years, but it would be unthinkable to explain contemporary fashion without his influence. Armani is part of an unrepeatable generation of Italian designers—Gianni Versace, Franco Moschino, Gianfranco Ferré, and Dolce & Gabbana—who, for the first time, made Italy a global focal point. Today, it's natural to look to Milan for its trends, but it's thanks to this generation of designers that this revolution took place. Within this group, Armani opted for his own path, diametrically opposed to Versace's: while Versace sublimated the Baroque. kitsch, ostentatious ornamentation and explicit sexuality, he was embarking on a path of essentiality, clean lines and restrained sophistication that would write the first chapter of the minimalism that would dominate the following decades.

It seems impossible to believe, but this Friday Julia Roberts visited the Venice Film Festival for the first time. The 57-year-old actress, a true icon of Hollywood cinema, winner of an Oscar for Erin Brockovich, has stepped onto the red carpet at the Mostra for the first time thanks to his participation in the film After the hunt, directed by Italian Luca Guadagnino and presented out of competition at Venice. In the film, Roberts plays Alma Imhoff, a Yale University professor whose ethical convictions and emotional ties are compromised when she discovers that her best friend and closest confidant (Andrew Garfield) may have sexually assaulted his favorite student, an African-American and Latinx girl. the series The bear.