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.

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.